Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James

Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. JamesFrom the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There are chapters on great American crime writers the likes of Patricia Highsmith, Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett. James also discusses many of her

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