File contains the following:
P D James, ‘The Magical Mystery Tour’: an article in ‘Now! Review’, 3 April 1980, in which she reviews detective story writing to mark the 50th anniversary of the Collins Crime Club;
P D James, ‘The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper: Britain’s top mystery novelist paints a new portrait of the chatty madman’, in Life magazine (published in New York), April 1980;
P D James, ‘Agatha Christie’, in ‘TV Guide: America’s Television Magazine’, May 1981, written as background to a screening of an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s ‘Why didn’t they ask Evans?’;
P D James, ‘Dublin’s Timeless Trinity’, from the New York Times travel page, 29 November 1981;
P D James, ‘In Mystery Fiction, Rooms Furnished One Clue at a Time’, from the New York Times, 25 August 1983, on the importance of setting and a sense of place;
Anne Boston, 5 page draft typescript article on P D James written around the time of the Anglia TV adaptation of Shroud for a Nightingale [1984];
Review by P D James of James McClure, 'Spike Island: Portrait of a British Police Division' [1986];
‘Detective stories affirm the sanctity of life’: conversation between P D James and Alvin P Sanoff in US News & World Report, 24 November 1986;
P D James, ‘Natural Causes: P D James reveals how her crime novels spring from a sense of place; the East Anglia coast - - - providing the setting for poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh’s only published verse’, from The Observer Weekend section, 5 January 1986.