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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | P. D. James | Her friends and colleagues included people in Scotland Yard, forensic scientists, lawyers, and politicians (for example, the former Prime Minister John Major
and his wife Norma
). She was a member of the Detection Club |
| Occupation | Antonia Fraser | AF
's public work continued after her second marriage. She chaired the Crime Writers' Association
, and became in 1984 a founding trustee of the Authors' Foundation
. When she retired as a trustee she... |
| Reception | P. D. James | The Crime Writers' Association
awarded PDJ
a Diamond Dagger for her contribution to the field of mystery writing. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
| Reception | P. D. James | Reviewers warmly praised the novel. It won James a Silver Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association
, and an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America
. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986. chronology |
| Reception | P. D. James | The Black Tower won a Silver Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association
. Since it focused on Dalgliesh's personal struggles with illness more than on his detection, it is more personal than most of James's... |
| Reception | P. D. James | It received a Booker Prize nomination, a Silver Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association
, and Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America
. Priestman, Martin. “P. D. James and the Distinguished Thing”. On Modern British Fiction, edited by Zachary Leader, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 234-57. 235 British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
| Reception | Margery Allingham | The review in British Book News noted the psychological depth of this novel was unusual for MA
, but not wholly new, in that she had already experimented with this kind of exploration in The... |
| Reception | Josephine Tey | Longer-term opinion has mostly sided with The Daughter of Time. In 1990 the Crime Writers' Association
voted it the best crime novel ever written. Underhill, Evelyn. Worship. Harper, 1957. xvii |
| Reception | Patricia Highsmith | In England the book was on the best-seller list. It received the Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers Association of England
in the year of publication as the best foreign crime novel of the... |
| Textual Production | P. D. James | PDF's short story Moment of Power, a tale of illicit sexual passion and power over life and death, won first prize in a Crime Writers' Association
contest sponsored by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986. chronology, 3, 124 |
| Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published A Demon in My View, a novel about psychopathic violence, which the following year won a Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association
. Binyon, T. J. “Criminal proceedings”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3890, 1 Oct. 1976, p. 1260. 1260 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research, 1989. 321 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 52: 369 |
| Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published The Tree of Hands, a novel for which she received that year a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (24 October 1984): 10 Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research, 1989. 323 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 52: 369 |
| Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
published Live Flesh, a novel for which she received that year's Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research, 1989. 324 Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 52: 369 |
| Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
, as Barbara Vine, published A Fatal Inversion, for which she received that year a Gold Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association
. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 52: 369, 370 Klein, Kathleen Gregory, editor. Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood, 1994. 298 |
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