Set in the medical world of hospitals and nursing schools in London, the fourth Adam Dalgliesh mystery Shroud for a Nightingale is a thrilling work of detective fiction from P.D. James, the bestselling author of Death Comes to Pemberley and Children of Men.
P. D. James was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime
writer. She was the creator of Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray,
and their long and successful series of mysteries. Her works
include Cover Her Face (1962), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
(1972), Innocent Blood (1980), Children of Men (1992), and the Jane
Austen-inspired Death Comes to Pemberley (2011).
James was born in Oxford in 1920. She won awards for crime writing
in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery
Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She received honorary degrees
from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and
created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of
the Society of Authors, and stood down from this role in 2013.
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