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WILL YOU CRACK UNDER PRESSURE?
Take our P.D. James quiz and test your knowledge!
1) What does P.D. stand for?
Patricia Deirdre

Phyllis Dorothy

Philippa Dawn

Phyllis Daphne

2) In which novel did Adam Dalgliesh first appear?
A Taste for Death

A Mind To Murder

Cover Her Face

The Black Tower

3) What is the name of the private club for crime enthusiasts that is mentioned in a number of the novels?
Dead Man?s Brotherhood

The Cold Case Club

The Cadaver Club

The Murder Room Brigade

4) Which novel is set in a nursing school?
A Shroud to a Nightingale

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Unnatural Causes

The Skull Beneath the Skin

5) Which novel begins with the line: ?Murderers do not usually give their victims notice?
Devises and Desires

Death in Holy Orders

The Lighthouse

A Certain Justice

6) How did Adam Dalgliesh?s wife die?
In childbirth

She was murdered

In a car accident

She committed suicide

7) From whom did Cordelia Gray inherit her detective agency?
Simpson Gray

Bernie Pryde

Conrad Ackroyd

Roy Shaw

8) Which of these books has not won P.D. James a Silver Dagger Award?
The Black Tower

A Taste for Death

Death in Holy Orders

Shroud for a Nightingale

9) In which year did P.D. James give up work to be a full-time writer?
1969

1972

1979

1982

10) Which novel features the serial killer the Whistler ?
Original Sin

Unnatural Causes

Devices and Desires

A Mind to Murder
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