SOURCE: "The Queen of Crime: P. D. James," in New York Times Magazine, October 5, 1986, pp. 48-50, 54, 58, 60, 70.
In the following essay, Symons discusses James's new book, A Taste for Death, and talks to the author about her life and writing in the detective genre.
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