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082	0		_aMYS JAM
100	1		_aJames, P. D. _q(Phyllis Dorothy) _d(1920-2014)
245	1	0	_aDeath comes to Pemberley _b: a novel _c/ P. D. James
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, c2011
300			_a291 p. _c; 25 cm.
505	0		_aThe Bennets of Longbourn -- The day before the ball -- The body in the woodland -- Police at Pemberley -- The inquest -- The trial -- Gracechurch Street -- Epilogue.
520			_aHistorical mystery buffs and Jane Austen fans alike will welcome this homage to the author of Pride and Prejudice from MWA Grand Master James, best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective series (The Private Patient, etc.). In the autumn of 1803, six years after the events that closed Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Darcy, the happily married mistress of Pemberley House, is preparing for Lady Anne's annual ball, "regarded by the county as the most important social event of the year." Alas, the evening before the ball, Elizabeth's sister Lydia, who married the feckless Wickham, bursts into the house to announce that Captain Denny, a militia officer, has shot her husband dead in the woodland on the estate. Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam, who purists may note behaves inconsistently with Austen's original, head out in a chaise to investigate. Attentive readers will eagerly seek out clues to the delightfully complex mystery, which involves many hidden motives and dark secrets, not least of them in the august Darcy family.
650		4	_aDarcy, Fitzwilliam (Fictitious character) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aBennet, Elizabeth (Fictitous character) _v--Fiction
650			_aMurder _x-Investigations _v--Fiction
651			_aEngland _x-Social life and customs _y-19th century _v--Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
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