In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face"
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Amazon.com: Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 1 ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. One of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession. ... Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler's fingers ... Cover Her Face is P.D. James' delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted .... the water turns lethal, and Scotland Yard's Inspector Dalgliesh is on the job.
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Cover Her Face | Faber & Faber  ... comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh. Set against the English countryside, Cover Her Face is a classic murder ... To her the choice of detective fiction was simply obvious, but she made it her own .... for three decades before her first novel was published by Faber & Faber in 1962.
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P. D. James - Wikipedia  Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920  27 November 2014), known as P. D. James, was an English crime...
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Adam Dalgliesh - Wikipedia  Adam Dalgliesh (pronounced "dal-gleash") is a fictional character who has been the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. ... She is still a member of Dalgliesh's team in The Private Patient (2008). DI Daniel Aaron (Tim Dutton) replaces Massingham when...
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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, #1) by P.D. James  Reviews ...  Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer ... Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted ..... James, P. D. COVER HER FACE. (1962). *****. This was James' first Detective Chief ..... toe into her first novel, in order to judge whether she may do Austin justice.
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You Have Seen Their Faces - Erskine Caldwell - Google Books  First published in 1937, it is a classic comparable to Jacob Riis's How the ... Bourke-White, who sometimes waited hours for the right moment, captures her subjects in the ... Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen ... This is a famous work that's received plenty of attention already, both...
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Mrs Dalloway - Wikipedia  Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the ... During most of the novel she is homesick for her family and country, which she .... Mrs Dalloway also appears in Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, ... Jump up ^ ""Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"  Modernism Lab Essays".
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Nonfiction Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy, Author ...  Crime novelist Ellroy (American Tabloid) was 10 in 1958 when his mother, ... James Ellroy, Author Knopf Publishing Group $25 (351p) ISBN 978-0-679-44185-4 ... The case was still unsolved in 1994, when Ellroy hired retired L.A. homicide ... sex crimes and police work, setting his mother's murder against a grisly backdrop...
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A Wrinkle in Time - Wikipedia  A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel written by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1963. The story revolves around a young girl whose father, a government scientist, has gone missing after working on a mysterious project called a tesseract. ... Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry's classmates and teachers see her as a...
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The Group by Mary McCarthy | Book review | Books | The Guardian  Nov 28, 2009 ... On the eve of its reissue, Elizabeth Day assesses Mary McCarthy's seminal ... When it was first published in 1963, The Group rapidly became a book that everyone ... and breast-feeding as they affected a group of eight female graduates in ... before her death that she thought The Group had "ruined my life".
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Amazon.com: She Fell Among Thieves: Richard O'Callaghan ...  Editorial Reviews. Product Description. A French policeman and a detective seek to convict a .... I have read many a Dornford Yates from my grandmother's attic. ... Gene Shallit was the first person to introduce the Mystery series, that glorious year when ... on PBS, She Fell Among Thieves is a DVD presentation in full color,...
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A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries, No. 7): P. D. James ...  Editorial Reviews. From Publishers Weekly. In her latest Commander Adam Dalgliesh detective ... "One reads a P. D. James novel in something like the same spirit that one reads a novel by Zola, Balzac, Thackeray, or Dickens. ... a Scotland yard Detective with his own tragic past, who is also a published poet; and Sgt Kate...
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Jeopary Questions page 2277 - A WORLD OF BOOKS - TriviaBistro ...  A WORLD OF BOOKS: Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"  PLAQUES: A plaque at the Annapolis Docks...
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Dame Agatha Christie | British author | Britannica.com  May 15, 2015 ... Educated at home by her mother, Christie. ... died. January 12, 1976. Wallingford, England. Similar People ... detective novelist and playwright whose books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been translated into some 100 languages. ... She was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1971.
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Death on the Nile - Wikipedia  Death on the Nile is a book of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK ... The full length novel was preceded (1937) by a short story with the same title, but ... Hercule Poirot sees a young woman, Jacqueline de Bellefort ("Jackie"), .... Poirot finally explains the real mystery to Race, Miss Robson, and Dr.
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Cover Her Face: An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (Adam Dalgliesh ...  Editorial Reviews. Review. One of the finest, most absorbing craftsmen of the profession. ... The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the .... "Cover Her Face" is the novel that first introduced this hero to the literary world and .... Designer Men's