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P.D. James Dept: Why would P.D. James, the doyenne of British whodunits, venture to imitate the style of a celebrated 200-year-old romance novel of Georgian mores and manners? And why would Death Comes to Pemberley Knopf, 304 pages, $32 , a murder-cosy "sequel" to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, now sit atop the bestseller lists?, according to Winnipeg Free Press. True, the village of Meryton and the titular estate of feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet and prickly hero Fitzwilliam Darcy, now six years married, provide a ready-made circle of relations and familiars in a closed-community setting familiar to readers of James' Adam Dalgleish detective series and p.D. James Enlarge Image Chalk it up to the inscrutable mania for all-thing-Jane, the same waxing tide that made the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies mashup series a novelty hit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.