P.D. James
Survival Kit | May 6, 2010
P.D. James has set her intricately plotted mysteries in a variety of unusual locations: Death In Holy Orders took place at a theological college in a remote part of East Anglia, Devices and Desires at a nuclear power station on the Norfolk coast, Original Sin in a publishing house on the Thames, The Murder Room in a private museum near Hampstead Heath. But as far as I know Baroness James has never sent her hero, Commander Adam Dalgleish, to the Montana woods on a case. Let’s find out what she’d need for such a trip by looking into her survival kit.
Her List:
1. The omnibus edition of all the novels of Jane Austen
2. Film: Some Like it Hot
3. Books and cassettes to enable me to speak good French at the end of the six months
4. A copious supply of lined A4 writing pads and two dozen black ballpoint pens
5. Large jars of cleansing and moisturising cream and a large bottle of Chanel’s No.5 perfume
6. A dozen very large balls of coloured wool and knitting needles
7. CD of St Matthew’s Passion by Bach
8. CD of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with the young John Gielgud as Hamlet
Her List:
1. The omnibus edition of all the novels of Jane Austen
2. Film: Some Like it Hot
3. Books and cassettes to enable me to speak good French at the end of the six months
4. A copious supply of lined A4 writing pads and two dozen black ballpoint pens
5. Large jars of cleansing and moisturising cream and a large bottle of Chanel’s No.5 perfume
6. A dozen very large balls of coloured wool and knitting needles
7. CD of St Matthew’s Passion by Bach
8. CD of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with the young John Gielgud as Hamlet
