Her writing career began in the 1950' s, when agatha christie's "golden age of mystery novels" has passed, and the old writing method of sacrificing the fullness and complexity of characters for delicate plots has come to an end. Moreover, the logical premise of classical detective novels is the sanctity of life, and the method of solving puzzles makes people believe that we live in a rational and beautiful world, so the ending is generally satisfactory, warm and full of certainty. Like tragedy, detective stories have an unexpected effect on purifying people's minds. However, the cruelty of war and life makes the presupposition of rational people unconvincing. People need to be able to express their thoughts better, and they need to see more real people from novels. On the other side, the United States is brewing its tough guy-style detective, full of more descriptions of sex and violence. If Europe wants to produce excellent works, it is bound to get out of the traditional predicament. What PD James wrote is what people need. She strengthened the uncertainty on the basis of traditional writing techniques. Although she is a person who longs for a sense of order and uses a detective story to divert the fear and anxiety caused by death and crime, she believes that the solution of the mystery may not necessarily return to a stable order, and the trauma after the novel is still dull. Because of this, she has become a real mirror of the times. However, this does not mean that her novels are frightening. Adam Dalglish, a brave and sensitive poet detective, has a little melancholy temperament in his novels, which makes readers' emotions reach a delicate balance. His quality has a kind of brilliance, which is the reappearance of the ideal self that P.D. James thinks makes people feel happy and kind, and so is another lovely and clever detective, cordelia Gray. A job unsuitable for women can be described as a petty crime novel. The most unforgettable thing is the bizarre murder case in Cambridge in midsummer. When cordelia Gray investigated the case, she was fascinated by the beautiful Jianhe River. Because of the sunshine and the river, she forgot her place. This feeling is strange but real. This is not only because of the beautiful scenery, but also because of the tension of crime. This description touches the depths of human emotions and fascinates me. She once thought that mystery novels would usher in the second golden age, because "mystery novels will achieve its modern people when people are most anxious and depressed, and the present society is also very frustrating." That makes sense.

She said that she could write everything she wanted to say in a mystery novel. As she grew older, she no longer worried about the "genre sense" of mystery novels. When talking about her original intention, her ideal is to write serious literature, and the mystery novel is just an attempt, but since this story structure has not bound her, she has accepted the mystery literature philosophically. In fact, she promoted the status of mystery novels, and some writers commented that "she opened up a new situation of mystery novels and made them transition to 2 1 century in people's amazement". And she herself has made great achievements in the field of mystery novels. From 65438 to 0986, the British Crime Writers Association began to award the Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award, which is the highest award of the association and the Nobel Prize in the field of crime/mystery novels. It will be awarded to outstanding and prolific people in this field. PD James is the second person to win this honor and the first female writer to win this honor. A few years later, she won the "Master Award" of the American Association of Reasoning Writers across the Atlantic, and was awarded the lifelong honor again. Not many writers can win two prizes at the same time, others are lawrence block, John le carre, Ruth Rendell, sue grafton and others. In 2008, the British Crime Fiction Writers Association established the International Crime Fiction Hall of Fame. Only three people won this honor in the first session: Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and P.D. James.

In fact, PD James started her writing career very late, although she planted seeds in her heart when she was a child. Police. James 1920 was born in a tax collector's family in Oxford. His mother buys books and tells stories for their brothers and sisters from time to time. She has dreamed of becoming a writer since she could read. She was familiar with Shakespeare and the Bible when she was in middle school. But because of the war and family environment, she didn't publish her first novel until she was in her forties. /kloc-at the age of 0/6, she dropped out of middle school because of family conditions and her father's intention; During the war, she gave out vouchers. When she attended a lecture of the Red Cross, she saw the nurse feeding the patient with a catheter, and she conceived that this was a wonderful way to kill people. After the war, her husband came back from the battlefield, facing a mental breakdown. PD James had to shoulder the burden of family. One day, the writer's dream haunted her mind, and she felt that she must seize this opportunity, otherwise her life would become like this, just a doctor's wife or a staff member of the Ministry of the Interior. Every day after that, she got up early and wrote for two hours before going to work, writing what she thought was important. Her work experience in the national medical service system and the Ministry of the Interior has provided rich materials and professional knowledge for novel writing. Day after day, she finally took out her first book and successfully published it. After that, the writer's career became better and better. The nightingale's shroud made her famous, while her pure blood made her famous in the United States, and her expensive copyright made her rich in a week. Nevertheless, she still thinks that her greatest weakness is laziness-laziness at work, and her greatest advantage should be resilience, she said, but she can only get this far by courage. She can retire from the Ministry of the Interior. After retirement, she became the chairman of the British Writers Association, served as a judge of the Booker Prize, and served as an honorary doctor of literature in eight universities, including London University, while still writing. Death came to Pemberley 20 1 1, continuing the story of pride and prejudice. When she talked about two great pleasures in life, she said that one was writing mystery novels and the other was reading Jane Austen. In addition, she also has dystopian works such as The Son of Man. Most of the works have been made into movies or TV series.

I was fascinated by her when I read her early work "Jobs Not Suitable for Women". This can be regarded as a Victorian story, which often abandons the rationalism of instrumental theory and praises the humanistic spirit in human nature. The scientist Lord Ronald became the representative of dry rational instrumentalism, while the female detective cordelia Gray had a rich mind and empathy. This novel was published in 1970, and P.D. James was the first writer influenced by the feminist movement. After cordelia Gray, more excellent female detectives emerged in mystery novels, instead of female detectives with ambiguous gender. Adam Dalglish keeps appearing in this novel. However, she once talked about the possibility of taking a female detective/policeman as the leading role, but the social environment at that time did not allow it. Later, because the changes made to cordelia Gray in the film and television drama were beyond the tolerance of PD James, she stopped the creation of Gray series in a rage. In the novel, influenced by Dalglish's handling method, cordelia Gray is both curious and suspicious about him, wondering whether there really is such a perfect character in life, but after seeing the real person, he wants to let go of his guard and talk to him. But before telling the whole story, Adam Dalglish, a policeman from Scotland Yard, accepted cordelia Gray from a private detective company and kept her secret. I think it's better to think that Dalglish compromised in front of this lovely detective than cordelia's surrender in front of him. Dalglish felt that cordelia Gray's success in solving the case was a kind of revenge in a sense. And this is another interesting place of this novel.

In fact, the works of P.D. James have been introduced to China for a long time, which is why this article is named Review. However, due to various factors, her wisdom, prudence, interest and charm, seriousness and loveliness are not well understood by readers. So, on the occasion of the new book, review P.D. James. In my opinion, she not only transformed classical reasoning literature into realistic crime literature, but also opened up a new situation for female detectives. There will be the shadow of P.D. James in many TV series of reasoning. Without her, the history of mystery literature would be completely different.