{"id":2008,"date":"2013-06-08T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/08\/the-mysteries-of-pd-james\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:49","slug":"the-mysteries-of-pd-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/08\/the-mysteries-of-pd-james\/","title":{"rendered":"The mysteries of PD James"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tracey Arial<\/b><\/p>\n

\nwww.traceyarial.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nPD James, or Phyllis Dorothy James White, is brilliant at writing complex mysteries that read more like novels than straight who-done-it.<\/p>\n

More than that, though, she\u2019s an honest woman who has a strong sense of fair play. Yet she still has no compunction in using only part of her own name to deceive sexist people.<\/p>\n

I love that her official website<\/a> includes hints for writing. This wonderful woman not only assumes we\u2019ll all try to copy her eventually, but she seems to believe we can.<\/p>\n

Her British sensibility seems to shine in every point she makes, especially the paragraph in which she describes her working habits:<\/p>\n

\u201cI get up early, make tea and settle down to about two hours writing. I have no special room, require only a comfortable chair, table or desk at the right height, and sufficient space for my dictionary and research material. I do, however, need to be completely alone. When my secretary arrives I dictate to her what I have written. She puts it on the computer and prints it out for editing and correcting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her best character by far is Commander Adam Dalgliesh, a police officer poet who seems to fall in love with everyone around him. I don\u2019t like any of her other mysteries.<\/p>\n

Her books include:<\/p>\n