For decades, going back to the 1970s, one of the most popular contemporary British mystery writers was PD James.
In a style sometimes reminiscent of Agatha Christie, James wrote about cases solved by her fictional detective she named Adam Dalgliesh.
He was a character she named after a teacher at Cambridge High School.
Book after book, a reputation and popularity grew, until in 1991 James was named a Life Peer in Britain’s House of Lords. She was Baroness James of Holland Park.
I interviewed her several times over the years, about her various Dalgleish nysteries. And then, in 2000, we talked about her autobiographical book “A Time To Be In Earnest.”
So here now, from 2000, P.D. James.
P.D. James wrote four more books in the years after this intervoew, the last of them in 2008.
The Baroness James of Holland Park died in 2014 at the age of 94.
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