RIP P.D. James

[Hawkman]

PD James, queen of crime fiction, dies aged 94...

Another great falls from the twig

[Lokasenna]

What? Oh no.

Baroness James was one of the handful of people in my list of favourite-living-humans. What a shame she's gone.

[Pompey Bum]

Whodunit?

[Ecurb]

I recently read her history of the Detective novel -- "Talking about Detective Fiction". Good stuff. RIP.

[ennison]

Ah Pompey. The timing's a bit off. James was a very good writer. I think she would be highly amused by the thread about men being superior achievers compared to blones. This damned predictive texting wanted blondes in there. Now That would be funny! Are men superior to Blondes?

[Pompey Bum]

Ah Pompey. The timing's a bit off. James was a very good writer.

My respects to the good woman. I liked The Children of Men, but that is all I've ever read by her. I meant no disrespect, though. But you have to whistle in the dark.

[ennison]

Probably she's a good example of a genre writer whose work transcends that sort of seeming limitation. I knew you meant no dis-respect and it was the kind of Sally I enjoy. She reached a grand age.

[ennison]

Note how the execrable predictive texting turned sally into Sally. There's a meaning there somewhere.