Innocent Blood Summary
P. D. James

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Innocent Blood Summary

Maureen Howard in a 1980 New York Times book review calls Innocent Blood "a novel clear and true . .

. a quest for personal identity, of irrational love and strain of duty between parents and children, husband and wife." Inspired by a newspaper account which James read as a consequence of the Children's Act of 1975, which permitted adopted children eighteen years or older to know the identity of their real parents, Innocent...

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P. D. James Biographies (4)

P. D. James

1,646 words, approx. 6 pages

The British author P(hyllis) D(orothy) James (born 1920) wrote in the tradition of the British crime storyteller, but her extensive explorations of relationships, motivations, and meanings of justice ... Read more

P. D. James

12,494 words, approx. 42 pages

Biography EssayThe coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in England, to which P. D. James has contributed prominently, can be attributed to a variety of disparate causes: the rapid changes in a soci... Read more

Phyllis Dorothy James White

11,997 words, approx. 40 pages

[This entry was updated by Ann Sanders Cargill (Columbia, S.C.) from the entry by Bernard Benstock (University of Miami) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 180-199.... Read more

Phyllis Dorothy James White

5,028 words, approx. 17 pages

P. D. James is the inheritor of some of the most distinguished literary mantles in popular fiction, those previously worn by detective-story writers who achieved near perfection in their craft. James'... Read more

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