Death Comes to Pemberley(2013)
Overview
Death Comes to Pemberley is a 2013 three-part British television drama based on P. D. James' 2011 novel of the same name, a murder mystery based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. June 1803, six years after the union of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy: one evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have a dispute, and leave in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots.
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Fitzwilliam Darcy
Elizabeth Darcy
George Wickham
Sir Selwyn Hardcastle
Lydia Wickham
Cartwright
Colonel Fitzwilliam
Georgiana Darcy
Henry Alveston
Louisa Bidwell
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