Death Comes to Pemberley (P. D. James, 2011)
P. D. James’s sequel: 1803, the night before the Pemberley ball, and Lydia says Wickham has been murdered.
A crime writer took Austen’s characters six years on and gave them a death to solve.
You want a sequel, and you like a classic detective novel.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the characters and Austen’s period manner, carried forward.
Changes: the genre to a murder mystery, and the time to six years after the wedding.
1803, six years after the wedding, the eve of the autumn ball at Pemberley: Lydia arrives saying Wickham has been murdered.
Whose story is it?
the Darcys’, as a married couple with a household and a scandal.
How much time does it ask?
304 pages in paperback.
Vintage paperback, 1 January 2013, 304 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
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Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: Penguin Classics, ed. Vivien Jones (2002) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition (2020) · The Norton Critical Edition, fourth edition