A. Because P. D. James’s potential as a writer is stifled by her chosen genre, she should turn her talents toward writing mainstream novels.
B. Although her plots are not always neatly resolved, the beauty of her descriptive passages justifies P. D. James’s decision to write in the crime-novel genre.
C. The dichotomy between popular and sophisticated literature is well illustrated in the crime novels of P. D. James.
D. The critics who have condemned P. D. James’s lack of attention to the specifics of detection fail to take into account her carefully constructed plots.