Presenter Hello listeners! Many of us like crime fiction. Some of us even like to meet and discuss the books we have read. Today our visitor is Tom Rider, the chairman of the PD James Book Club. Tom Hello. Presenter Tom, can you say a few words about PD James and his books? Tom Her books, in fact. PD James is short for Phyllis Dorothy James, an English crime writer born in Oxford. She also had a political career in the House of Lords. Presenter Oh, I didn’t know that. Does she also have favourite detectives like Agatha Christie’s Hercules Poirot? Tom She does! Her favourite detective is a policeman and a poet, Adam Dalgliesh, who appears in most of her books. But, like Agatha Christie who created a woman detective Miss Marple, PD James wrote two books with a woman solving the crime. Presenter How interesting! Is the woman also a police officer? Tom She is more of a businesswoman. Her name is Cordelia Gray and she has her own detective agency. Presenter Does she ever meet Adam Dalgliesh? Tom She does. In the book An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. Presenter Do you think that Agatha Christie’s and PD James’s books are similar? Tom Not really. The similarity is that both writers like to have a closed group of suspects and the reader can try to solve the mystery with the detective. But I like PD James more because her stories are more modern. Presenter Can you tell us one story? Tom That would be too complicated but everybody is welcome to join our club. Presenter Thank you very much for your invitation and for coming to our studio.