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PD James

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PD James
PD James

PD James - has the following books at our site 

The Private Patient (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Book 14)
Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #8)
The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #5)
A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #2)
Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #6)
Cover Her Face
Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #4)
Unnatural Causes (Adam Dagliesh Mystery Series #3)
Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #9)
A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #10)
Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series #11)
The Murder Room (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Book 12)
The Lighthouse (Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Book 13)
A Taste For Death
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
The Skull Beneath the Skin

"As I have been reading crime novels – mostly detective stories – for 80 years, I can spot most of the tricks – particularly those of Agatha Christie. I am also quite likely to hit upon the killer in more modern novels. But spotting the murderer is probably less important in modern detective stories. The pure puzzle – as with Agatha Christie – although ingenious, is probably less important today than the examination of motive, the interest of setting and distinction of writing. The detective novel has moved closer to mainline fiction."

About PD James

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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