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Death Comes to Pemberley - P.D. James
Death Comes to Pemberley
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The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and... show more
The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered. Two great literary minds - master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen - come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery, P.D. James creates a delightful mash-up that will intrigue any Janeite. From the bestselling author of The Murder Room, Children of Men and A Certain Justice, comes a wonderful mixture of the nation's greatest romance and best-loved crime fiction. In 2013, this novel was adapted as a miniseries by the BBC, starring Matthew Rhys as Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth Bennet and Jenna Coleman as Lydia Wickham.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780571311170
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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LeseBlick
LeseBlick rated it
3.0 Todesfall bei Mr. Darcy und Elizabeth
Inhaltsangabe Im Jahr 1803, sechs Jahre nach der Hochzeit von Mr. Darcy und seiner Elizabeth, geht das Leben auf Pemberley seinen idyllischen Gang. Doch am Abend vor dem großen Herbstball wird die Vorfreude empfindlich gestört: Aus dem waldigen Dunkel des Parks bricht in rasender Fahrt eine Kutsche,...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
2.0 Death Comes to Pemberley
Well, I should say that I didn't read the book but watched the TV adaptation - and I am assuming that the adaptation follows the book. On second thought, please tell me I'm wrong and the book is better....or different, because there were a lot of aspects of the story that were just annoying ..... ...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it
1.0 Death Comes to Permberley
“Heaven and earth — of what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?” Austen had no way of knowing it, but it wasn't Elizabeth Bennett that would pollute the shades of Pemberley; it was P.D. James. A couple of pages in, I thought "oh, this is looking good - 4 stars at ...
bookwookiee
bookwookiee rated it
2.0 Death Comes to Pemberley
Not a fan.
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it
2.0 Death Comes to Pemberly by PD James
This wasn't high on my TBR but it was available on audiobook through my library. I figured that a cozy mystery based on Pride and Prejudice would be a fun, quick read. I was wrong.The author has done a admirable job of emulating the style of language and characters from the beloved Jane Austen class...
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