Jane Austen famously refused to acknowledge the Napoleonic Wars in her books. The detective novelist P.D. James rectifies that in the first chapter of Death Comes to Pemberley, her follow-up to Pride ...

That Jane Austen failed to write a murder-mystery sequel to “Pride and Prejudice” was an oversight remedied in 2011 by P.D. James with her novel “Death Comes to Pemberley.” Like “P&P” and many other ...

Imagine a Jane Austen book crossed with a gripping murder mystery case – that’s the premise for this ravishing three-part period drama. Adapted from PD James’ best-selling novel and marking the 200th ...

British mystery writer P.D. James is best known for her creation Adam Dalgliesh — a pensive, private Scotland Yard detective shaped by his own personal tragedy. Dalgliesh populates many of James' ...

The whole notion of one author picking up where a predecessor left off feels at least a little inauthentic, if not a blatant and usually second-rate rip-off. But there have been exceptions over the ...

A “Pride and Prejudice” sequel/murder mystery? That alone should be a sufficient come-on to rouse English-lit majors and awaken “Masterpiece” viewers, but “Death Comes to Pemberley” — a two-part movie ...

When Jane Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice” in the early years of the 19th century, there was no heroic place for the unreconstructed nerd in the throbbing romantic novel. Even though Austen wrote ...

New three-part BBC series based on PD James's sequel turns Pride and Prejudice into a whodunit. Photographs by Robert Viglasky from left Matthew Rhys as Fitzwilliam Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin as ...

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