- English Detective and mystery stories, History and criticism, Crime, Literary Criticism
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James--one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today--gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.P.
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Spare, classical in form, earnest and warm.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- P. D. James
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- B (Ediciones B), Vintage Books, B de Bolsillo (Ediciones B)
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780307398819
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- English Detective and mystery stories
- History and criticism
- Crime
- Literary Criticism
- Nonfiction
- Authorship
- Technique
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism
- English fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
- American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
- New York Times reviewed
An English crime writer and Conservative life peer in the House of Lords, most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh.
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