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Death Comes to Pemberley

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335:. Denny shouts to the driver to stop, and gets out. He runs into the woods, followed by Wickham, trying to stop him. Distraught, Lydia demands to be driven up to the house. The coachman, hearing shots, raises the alarm and Darcy and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, Viscount Hartlep, hurry to the wood minutes later. They discover Denny, a bloodstained corpse. Despite the shots, Denny had received the mortal blows from a blunt instrument. Wickham, still not sober, is beside him, and is heard to say that the death of Denny is his fault. 362:
companion to Darcy's younger sister, could bring up the boy. She, however, is run over and killed outside the high court where Wickham has been tried, and it was expected that Louisa's married sister in Birmingham would adopt the child. Louisa, however, has only lately discovered that the father of her love child, Georgie, is in fact Wickham. It is arranged that Georgie be adopted by Mr and Mrs Robert Martin (brought in from
358:, a written deposition arrives from a sick man, William Bidwell, who has one week to live. He left his sickbed, seized a poker, and struck Denny, whom he took for the soldier who had interfered with his sister Louisa. After he knocked him down he saw him fall backwards, striking his head fatally on a stone. The deposition arrives after the jury has returned a verdict of guilty. Wickham receives a royal pardon. 420: 34: 415: 410: 405: 400: 338:
Later in court, Wickham says that Denny "thought that I had been wrong to resign my commission without having a sound profession and a settled home for my wife. In addition he thought that my plan to leave Mrs Wickham at Pemberley to spend the night there and to attend the ball the next day was both
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In the sixth and final section, the backstory is told, after we have been given the outcome of the trial. Wickham had fathered an illegitimate child by Louisa Bidwell. Colonel Fitzwilliam, who owed Wickham a favour from the Irish campaign, agreed to lend or give him £30 so that Mrs Younge, once a
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inconsiderate and would be inconvenient for Mrs Darcy. I believe that it was his increasing impatience with my conduct that made my company intolerable to him, and that it was this reason that led him to stop the chaise and run into the woodland."
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The publican's wife at the inn from which the three travellers had set out said that she heard Denny say that "Mr Wickham was selfish and did not understand how women feel and that there had been deceit from start to finish."
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in the style of Jane Austen, as James acknowledges in her Author's Note. The book is divided into sections: Author's Note; Prologue; six Books; Epilogue. Elizabeth Bennet is largely absent in the central section. Unlike
587: 291:. 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. 366:: Mrs Martin had been Harriet Smith before her marriage). They arrange his baptism, and give him the name of John. Louisa later marries Joseph Billings, butler at Highmarten, the home of Jane, 370:
Bennet, and Charles Bingley, and intends that the boy will not in the future be found by Wickham, who will now emigrate to America with Lydia, financed once again by the benevolence of Darcy.
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In his defence Wickham tells the jury that he had come upon Denny lying dead, and fired with Denny's weapon at a figure he thought he saw retreating through the woods. Then, like a
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There is much about police and judicial procedures. Darcy, although he is a magistrate, stands aside in various ways from the investigation of a death on his land.
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assessed it at an aggregated critic score of 8.9/10 based on an accumulation of British and American press reviews. In
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The coachman heard Denny say he would not go along with Mr Wickham any more, and that Mr Wickham was now on his own.
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Mar/Apr 2012 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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Newspaper reviews were generally favourable, many enthusiastically so, with the
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is an enjoyable diversion that should please fans of James and Austen alike".
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The novel begins in October 1803, six years after the events in
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and his friend Captain Martin Denny, with Wickham's young wife
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Death Comes to Pemberley (TV series)

lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

P. D. James
Historical
mystery
Alfred A. Knopf
Faber & Faber
Hardcover
audiobook
Paperback
ISBN
9780307959850
OCLC
757488817
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
historical mystery
P.D. James
Jane Austen's
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Elizabeth Bennet
pastiche
George Wickham
Lydia

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