id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4577 P. D. James - Wikipedia .html text/html 3540 508 75 Her first novel, Cover Her Face, featuring the investigator and poet Adam Dalgliesh of New Scotland Yard, named after a teacher at Cambridge High School, was published in 1962.[7] Many of James's mystery novels take place against the backdrop of UK bureaucracies, such as the criminal justice system and the National Health Service, in which she worked for decades starting in the 1940s. Her 2001 work, Death in Holy Orders, displays her familiarity with the inner workings of church hierarchy.[9] Her later novels were often set in a community closed in some way, such as a publishing house or barristers' chambers, a theological college, an island or a private clinic. According to James in conversation with Bill Link on 3 May 2001 at the Writer's Guild Theatre, Los Angeles, Marsden "is not my idea of Dalgliesh, but I would be very surprised if he were."[16] The BBC adapted Death in Holy Orders in 2003, and The Murder Room in 2004, both as one-off dramas starring Martin Shaw as Dalgliesh. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4577.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4577.txt