Thank you for your submission of Death Comes to Pemberley, which we read with interest, for your writing style is quite extraordinary. James been an unknown author peddling her manuscript for the first time to publishers and agents, Death Comes to Pemberley would have been tossed on the slush pile and she would have received a slew of the rejection letters, one of which might have looked like this: To that I said she shouldn’t have bothered. Both were ecstatic that she had written one more book, for they fear that their author, being 90+ years old, might not have too many novels left to write. James waste her time writing a Jane Austen sequel, especially if the mystery was less than sterling?” Both defended her decision to write this book, while I was not particularly swayed. My question to them was: “Why would a famous author like P.D. Last weekend the three of us came to the same conclusion, which was that the mystery was weak and a bit lame, and that the actual murderer was so preposterous as to be unbelievable. They waited to discuss the book with me until after I had finished reading it and could give my opinion. Another Janeite friend had read it and remarked that it was very well done and followed the forensic detective work of its time. James novel before, and she was curious to know what I thought of this book.
James novel and was overall satisfied with this novel. (The book placed third on the NY Times best seller list this weekend.)Ī good friend of mine, whose judgment I value, owns every single P.D. James, the book’s author, is a highly regarded mystery writer with a solid record for selling mystery books to discerning mystery fans.
When Death Comes to Pemberley was announced I did not hesitate to purchase a copy for my Kindle. Generally, publishers will send books for review or I’ll pick up a copy at the library. Urn:oclc:796081460 Republisher_date 20151103074506 Republisher_operator Scandate 20151102090100 Scanner ’s rare that I purchase a Jane Austen sequel. Urn:lcp:deathcomestopemb00jame_0:epub:be2760bb-1b42-4515-be65-034995df9b32 Extramarc MIT Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier deathcomestopemb00jame_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0zp7rh96 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780307959850Ģ011033357 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL25158650M Openlibrary_edition
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