P. D. James Murder She Writes, CBS 60 minutes, January 5, 1992

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I love P. D. James. She is a writer that had to be made of steel and she is one of the best writers of crime fiction out there. Her detective stories are immaculately written, though they are not without their flaws. She is also a huge inspiration for me as a writer as well. She was completely right when she said that the conventions of the classical detective story can be incredibly liberating when writing about society and events within the structure of that genre. I love her books, especially her Cordelia Gray novels, "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman" and "The Skull Beneath the Skin". She was also a remarkable short story writer. Thank you for this wonderful interview! It is nice to see the real contrast between the person and the realty cheerfulness she had as a person and the vivid and terrifying and horrible murders she commits on the page. She is a writer very well missed