5/13/2023 0 Comments The lighthouse book pd james![]() “If I had a friend in distress I would have no hesitation in putting my arms around her to comfort her,” she once said, “but part of me would be observing the scene.”Īlongside the Dalgliesh novels, she wrote two books about Cordelia Gray, a tough female detective. James’s writing could be nasty, and she had plenty of cold steel in her. Violence and fear entered the cosy world she had first described. Dalgliesh appeared in 14 novels, and while his essential characteristics remained the same, the books grew deeper and darker. “I gave him the qualities I admire,” she said many years later, “because I hoped he might be an enduring character and that being so, I must actually like him.” ![]() She woke up at five in the morning, and wrote before going to work, to produce her first novel, Cover Her Face, a kind of cosy crime caper featuring a refined poet policeman called Adam Dalgliesh. That career began in 1962 when James was in her 40s and raising two children, working in a London hospital and looking after a husband who had returned from the second world war with mental-health problems. ![]()
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