To support her family (which included two children), she took work in hospital administration and, after her husband’s death in 1964, became a civil servant in the criminal section of the Department of Home Affairs.
White, a medical student and future physician, who returned home from wartime service mentally deranged and spent much of the rest of his life in psychiatric hospitals. Her formal education, however, ended at age 16 because of lack of funds, and she was thereafter self-educated. The daughter of a middle-grade civil servant, James grew up in the university town of Cambridge. James, byname of Phyllis Dorothy James White, Baroness James of Holland Park, (born August 3, 1920, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England-died November 27, 2014, Oxford), British mystery novelist best known for her fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard. As Mrs Maxie learns of her son's sudden engagement, the seemingly quiet Sally seems to be involved and by morning she is dead. James centres around the lives of Mrs Maxie and her parlour maid, Sally Jupp. Read the novel that launched her career as the world’s pre-eminent crime writer.Ĭover Her Face was adapted for television in 1985, starring Roy Marsden, Phyllis Calvert and Mel Martin.This mystery from the pen of author P.D. James plots a complex story of family secrets and suspicion. Investigating the violent death at the manor house, Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh becomes embroiled in the complicated passions beneath the calm surface of English country life. On the following morning Martingale and the village are shocked by the discovery of Sally’s body. As if organising stalls, as well as presiding over luncheon, the bishop and the tea tent, were not enough for Mrs Eleanor Maxie on that mellow July afternoon, she also has to contend with the news of her son’s sudden engagement to the new parlour maid, Sally Jupp. St Cedd’s Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale manor house for generations. Set in the peaceful English countryside, Cover Her Face is a classic murder mystery.
James, one of the masters of British crime fiction, comes the debut novel that introduced Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh.
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