"Who wrote, the 2011 sequel to Pride and Prejudice, ""Death Comes to Pemberley”?"
Death Comes to Pemberley Death Comes to Pemberley Death Comes to Pemberley is a British novel by P.D. James that continues Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" with a murder mystery. The novel begins in October, 1803, six years after the events in "Pride and Prejudice" which resulted in the marriage of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet. The Prologue and Book One introduce the main characters, summarize the histories of the Bennet and Darcy families, and introduce a murder. The remainder of the novel is about the mystery and its solution. The novel is a pastiche in the style of Jane Austen, as
Death Comes to Pemberley James acknowledges in her Author's Note. The book is divided into sections: Author's Note; Prologue; six Books; Epilogue. Elizabeth is largely absent in the central section. Unlike Pride and Prejudice, Darcy holds the narrative point of view, and therefore, the book often contains his inward reflections, absent in Austen's novel. George Wickham and his friend Captain Martin Denny, with Wickham's young wife Lydia ("née" Bennet), in a horse drawn chaise, are passing through a wooded area on the grounds of Pemberley in Derbyshire. Denny shouts to the driver to stop, and gets out. He runs into the woods, followed by