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  • P.D. James and Louise Penny

    “Perhaps Adam Dalgliesh is an idealized version of what I’d have liked to be if I’d been born a man.” P.D. James, quoted in an interview by Julian Symons, NY Times, 5 October 1986. “Almost always the idea for a book comes to me as a reaction to a particular place and setting. Sometimes it’s…

  • Helen Baxendale in Poirot, Marple, and P.D. James

    Most non-UK viewers likely remember actor Helen Baxendale from her unfortunate role as Emily, the Englishwoman so unsuitably affianced to the appallingly selfish and immature Ross in Friends. David Schwimmer is a terrific actor, and I enjoy his portrayal of the worst person in the series: an academic who dates his student (oof–well past the…

  • “I’m no Captain Wentworth”: P.D. James’s Dalgliesh in Love

    The Murder Room is one of my favourite P.D. James mysteries, although many other readers are less rapturous. Kirkus Reviews complained about “a plot less ineluctable than her best” but praises the intriguing cast of characters and–as always in James–the extraordinary sense of place. The novel is set largely at the Dupayne Museum, which explores…