The Associated Press reports via The Christian Science Monitor that author P. D. James has died at age 94. This Englishwoman was one of the great mystery novelists of the past half century, a true colleague of Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie.
Phyllis Dorothy James was best known for her gentlemanly Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh, who avocationally wrote poetry and famously said of catching criminals "It is ... my job." Recently, her "Death Comes to Pemberley" was featured on PBS Masterpiece Mystery.
