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Adam Dalgliesh
Fictional character in mystery novels by P. D. James
This article is about P.D. James' fictional detective. For a list of the 10 miniseries produced between 1983 and 1998, see Roy Marsden. For the television series that began airing in 2021, see Dalgliesh (TV series). For the rugby union player, see Adam Dalgleish.
Fictional character
Adam Dalgliesh (DAL-gleesh) is a fictional character who is the protagonist of fourteen mystery novels by P. D. James; the first being James's 1962 novel Cover Her Face. He also appears in the two novels featuring James's other detective, Cordelia Gray.
Character
In the first novel, Dalgliesh is a Detective Chief Inspector. He eventually reaches the rank of Commander in the Metropolitan Police at New Scotland Yard, London. He is an intensely cerebral and private person. He writes poetry, a fact of which his colleagues are fond of reminding him. Several volumes of his poetry have been published. Dalgliesh lives in a flat above the Thames at Queenhithe in the City of London. In the earlier novels he drives a Cooper
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Born October 7, 1893, in Trinidad, Alice Dalgliesh was a woman of letters all her life. The daughter of a Scotsman and an Englishwoman, she grew up with Sir Walter Scott’s novels and her father’s stories of how “Wattie” Scott would visit her great-grandfather and sit in the kitchen exchanging stories. An avid reader, she started writing when she was six and at age 14, after the family had moved to England, she won a five-pound box of chocolates from a magazine as a prize for her writing.
In 1912, she traveled to America to attend the Pratt Institute—she wanted to learn how to be a kindergarten teacher. She took her master’s degree at Teachers’ College at Columbia University. Soon thereafter, she began teaching a course in children’s literature at the same college while she taught grade school. Eventually she became the children’s book editor for Charles Scribner and Sons.
Her nonfiction was praised by critics for its “casual” yet factual and detailed style. Her historical fiction is cited for its accuracy and detail a
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Adam Dalgliesh
Adam Dalgliesh est un personnage de fiction créé par P. D. James. Cet inspecteur de Scotland Yard, de la lignée des gentlemen detectives, est le personnage principal de quatorze romans policiers. Il apparaît pour la première fois dans le roman À visage couvert (Cover Her Face) en 1962.
Biographie
[modifier | modifier le code]Adam Dalgliesh est inspecteur puis commissaire au Metropolitan Police Service du New Scotland Yard, poète à ses heures (plusieurs de ses poèmes ont été publiés). Veuf depuis plus de dix ans lorsque débute le premier roman, il est profondément marqué par la perte de son fils et de son épouse morte en couches, et donc réticent à s'engager sentimentalement. Comme ses prédécesseurs, Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, Albert Campion, voire Arsène Lupin, Adam Dalgliesh appartient à la catégorie des gentlemen detectives. Sensible et cérébral, il peut se montrer provocateur, mais il est surtout patient.
Il habite un appartement sur les quais de la Tamise dans Queenhithe, un quartier de la City non loin de la Cathédrale Saint-Paul. Da
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