DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY

Book ID/图书代码： 05380011B48596

English Summary/英文概要： The year is 1803, and Darcy and Elizabeth have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the Pemberley nursery, Elizabeth’s beloved sister Jane and her husband, Bingley, live within seventeen miles, the ordered and secure life of Pemberley seems unassailable, and Elizabeth’s happiness in her marriage is complete. But their peace is threatened and old sins and misunderstandings are rekindled on the eve of the annual autumn ball. The Darcys and their guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley’s wild woodland, and as it pulls up, Lydia Wickham, an uninvited guest, tumbles out, screaming that her husband has been murdered.

In a pitch-perfect recreation of the world of Pride and Prejudice, P. D. James elegantly fuses her lifelong passion for the work of Jane Austen with her talent for writing detective fiction. She weaves a compelling story, combining a sensitive insight into the happy but threatened marriage of the Darcys and the excitement and suspense of a brilliantly crafted detective story. Death Comes to Pemberley enshrines the qualities her readers have come to expect: psychological and emotional richness of characterisation, vivid evocation of place, and a credible and superbly structured plot, in a powerful and distinguished work of fiction.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《达西的疑问》英国BBC纪念《傲慢与偏见》出版200周年，续集迷你剧原作精彩呈现，向简.奥斯汀致敬之作。《达西的疑问》自从伊丽莎白和达西这对欢喜冤家结婚后，转眼已在气派的庞百利庄园共度了6年。两人过着安闲自在的生活，心上的烦恼，只剩达西的宝贝妹妹乔安娜的婚事。而今一年一度的秋季舞会正紧锣密鼓筹备中，所有人都忙得不可开交。乔安娜的两位追求者也在邀请之列：一个新近承袭了伯爵头衔和偌大家产，一个则是律师界的青年才俊。谁也没料到，就在舞会前夕，一切都乱了套。先是伊丽莎白的小妹丽迪亚乘着马车不请自来，呼天抢地哭着说老公韦翰在庄园附近被人枪杀了。众人连忙赶到林子里搜寻，却发现全身是血、酒气冲天的韦翰，以及后脑遭到重击、显然已经死去的丹尼上尉。传说闹鬼的林地里发生命案，为何住在那儿的病弱仆人一家却不肯搬走？事发当晚达西表哥费兹威廉上校行迹可疑，为何迟迟不肯解释？林子里树木上刻着的“F.D——Y”字母究竟指的是谁？《达西的疑问》小妹的终身大事正让人头疼，庄园里却发生了离奇命案。种种疑团让庄园上下人心惶惶，达西既要安抚大伙，还得应付随之而来的出庭审判，更糟的是，韦翰的生死，如今全靠他的证词。

Awards/获奖情况：‘The greatest contemporary writer of classic crime’. -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

’P.D. James is one of the national treasures of British fiction…. Hers is still, thank goodness, the world of the classic detective tale’. -- Malcolm Bradbury, Mail on Sunday

’The ability to haunt has earned P.D. James the title "queen" of crime. Long may she reign’. -- Chicago Sun-Times

’The work of Baroness James of Holland Park has elevated English detective fiction far beyond the diverting puzzles typical of the genre novelists of an earlier generation. Lady James is a perceptive chronicler of the changing landscape of London; the flux of urban development and the housing market; the corrosive culture of sink estates; the ruthless politics of the professions; and even the use of the internet for hedonistic purposes. Like Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe, she has looked at the darkness of the human psyche, and created from it not just entertainment but literature.’ -- The Times

相關國外報導:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15023862

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/p-d-james-write-austen-murder-mystery.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/sep/22/janeausten-pdjames

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8782310/PD-James-to-write-Pride-and-Prejudice-murder-mystery.html

http://itsacrimeuk.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/author-news-new-novel-from-p-d-james-press-release/

About the Author/作者介绍： 今年，《時代週刊》選出了50位最偉大的犯罪小說家，P.D. James名列前矛，甚至比這類小說的開山始祖愛倫坡名次還要前面。《時代週刊》給她的讚美是，創作力豐沛且腦容量驚人的貴婦。這位現年八十八高齡、氣質確實高雅非凡的女作家，目前還活躍於文壇，正準備推出她的最新作品THE PRIVATE PATIENT，內容描述一連串在整形外科醫院發生的命案。去年寫作該書時，她確實因為心臟問題住在病房裡，最近她接受訪問時，還幽默的笑道，她沒想過醫院竟然是這麼適合創作文學作品的好所在，沒有電話、手機、電子郵件…等打擾，讓她順利完成這部作品。 P.D. James出生於英國倫敦牛津，二次世界大戰開打時，還是青少女的她加入紅十字義勇軍，在糧食局工作，儘管只有高中畢業，但詹姆絲憑其勤奮自修的學養，與文筆脫俗的創作，得到文學圈極高的讚譽。1941年，詹姆絲嫁給醫生丈夫厄尼斯特．懷特（Ernest White），之後，她那心靈脆弱的丈夫，因為赴前線支援，大戰結束，精神卻開始失常，P.D. James除了要照顧長期臥床的丈夫，還得養育兩個女兒，為了生計，她展開長達三十年的公務員生涯，前後任職醫療及警政等部門，一方面，也沉浸在屬於自己的推理創作，卅八歲開始發表作品的她，42歲時完成長篇推理《掩上她的臉》（Cover Her Face, 1962），贏得文壇一片讚賞。《死亡的滋味》（A Taste for Death）和《黑塔》（The Black Tower）也已在台灣出版，極受讀者喜愛。

P.D. James著作豐富，至今已出版十餘本書，其中不少已經改編成為英美的電影及電視影集，2007年台灣上映的《末代浩劫》亦為其作品《人類之子》（The Children of Men）改編而來。她服務於英國公職三十餘年，包括警政部門，曾任英國內政部防制犯罪政策部門主管、兼掌統轄法醫等警政相關事務，退休前的職位為內政部犯罪防治署署長，也曾經是英國國家廣播公司執行長、及董事會成員之一，為英國上議院的議員。由於寫作有成，她獲得許多國際知名文學獎，包括在英國犯罪作家推理協會頒發、「諾貝爾推理文學獎」之稱的「鑽石匕首獎」(Dagger Awards)，並受英國皇室勳封為女伯爵、更獲頒美國偵探作家協會終身成就獎－「大師獎」，以及「愛倫坡獎」。其筆下的犯罪小說屢屢獲得英國、美國、義大利和斯堪地那維亞的重要獎項。她現居倫敦及牛津，育有兩位女兒、五位孫女。

P. D. James的名字，絕對是偵探推理與犯罪小說的品質保證。

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Faber; US: Knopf; Canada: Knopf Canada; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; China: Changsha Senxion; Czech Republic: Motto; Denmark: Forum; Finland: Otava; France: Fayard; Germany: Droemer Knaur; Hungary: XXI; Italy: Mondadori; Japan: Hayakawa; Norway: Aschehoug; Portugal: Porto; Russia: AST; Spain: Ediciones B; Sweden: Wahlstrom & Widstrand; Taiwan: Azoth

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