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From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. Widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book by P.D. James is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction.
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Talking about Detective Fiction, Phyllis Dorothy James
- Language
- Released
- 2009
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Phyllis Dorothy James
- Publisher
- The Bodleian Library
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN10
- 1851243097
- ISBN13
- 9781851243099
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Literary Studies, Detective, Literary Criticism, Writing, About Books
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- Talking about Detective Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. Widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book by P.D. James is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction.

