This sub-section contains papers relating to the writing and publication of P D James’ three works of non-fiction:
‘The Maul and the Pear Tree’ (co-authored with T A Critchley, a historical reconstruction of the Ratcliffe Highway murders, published 1971);
‘Time to be in Earnest’ (‘a fragment of autobiography’, published 1999);
‘Talking about Detective Fiction’ (an examination of the British detective novel, published 2009).