Murder is a unique crime for which we can never make reparation.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I thought that writing a detective story would be a wonderful apprenticeship because, whatever people tell you, a crime novel is not easy to write well. As I continued with my craft I became increasingly fascinated by the form and realized that you can use the formula to say something true about men and women and the society in which they live.
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Birth: | 3rd August, 1920 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
P. D. James is an English crime writer and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is most famous for a series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. James was born in Oxford, the daughter of Sidney James, a tax inspector, and educated at the British School in Ludlow and Cambridge High School for Girls.
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