Category Archives: P.D. James
“The greatest of these is lucre” by P.D. James
“And the house alone, thought Dalgliesh, must be worth at least three-quarters of a million, probably considerably more, given its position and unique architechtural interest. He recalled as he so often did the words of an old detective sergeant when … Continue reading
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“One of those perfect English autumnal days” by P.D. James
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. The rich colours of grass and earth were intensified by the mellow light of a sun almost warm enough for spring, and … Continue reading
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“Somewhere there lay a dead body” by P.D. James
“Commander Adam Dalgliesh was not unused to being urgently summoned to non-scheduled meetings with unspecified people at inconvenient times, but usually with one purpose in common: he could be confident that somewhere there lay a dead body awaiting his attention.” … Continue reading
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“The greatest mystery of all” by P.D. James
“The greatest mystery of all is the human heart, and that is the mystery with which all good novelists are concerned.” –P.D. James, quoted in “Murder in the Vicarage” by Ralph C. Wood, First Things, (No. 167, November 2006), p. … Continue reading
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