P.D. James

English novelist P. D. James, born Phyllis Dorothy James White in 1920 and died in 2014, was best known for her detective novels about Adam Dalgliesh, a police commander who is also a poet. The series begins with Cover Her Face and reaches its fourteenth book, The Private Patient. Away from that series she wrote The Children of Men, set in a near future where humanity faces extinction through male infertility, and Death Comes to Pemberley, a historical mystery.