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<p>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.<br> <br> P. D. James examines the genre from top to bottom, beginning with the mysteries at the hearts of such novels as Charles Dickens’s <i>Bleak House</i> and Wilkie Collins’s <i>The Woman in White,</i> and bringing us into the present with such writers as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell. Along the way she writes about Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie (“arch-breaker of rules”), Josephine Tey, Dashiell Hammett, and Peter Lovesey, among many others. She traces their lives into and out of their fiction, clarifies their individual styles, and gives us indelible portraits of the characters they’ve created, from Sherlock Holmes to Sara Paretsky’s sexually liberated female investigator, V. I. Warshawski. She compares British and American Golden Age mystery writing. She discusses detective fiction as social history, the stylistic components of the genre, her own process of writing, how criti

Who reads Talking About Detective Fiction?

Author

Phyllis Dorothy James

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307743138

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.74 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13