but, i won't let the identity of that corpse out of the cupboard. as austen did in her elegant spoof, northanger abbey, james clearly enjoys muddying her wellies here in the gothic literary terrain of ghosts and ancestral mansions and curses. throughout the mystery that unfolds, she ingeniously works in characters and themes, great and small, from pride and prejudice, and also gives erudite nods to the history of forensics and jury trials in great britain.
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this year, british mystery lovers in particular have a glorious plum pudding of a whodunit awaiting them. p.d. james has taken up the challenge of feeding readers' holiday hunger for homicide. what's even more tantalizing is the fact that james' latest mystery is also a tribute, of sorts, to one of her most cherished authors, jane austen. james' new novel is called death comes to pemberley: think pride and prejudice meets "clue."
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