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Complete with romance, intrigue, and crimes of the heart, MURDER AT MANSFIELD PARK is an irreverent new twist on an old classic.
St. Martin's Griffin
July 2010
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Featuring: Mary Crawford; Fanny Price
352 pages
ISBN: 0312638345
EAN: 9780312638344
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Mystery Historical | Jane Austen
Murder at Mansfield Park takes Jane Austen’s masterpiece and
turns it into a riveting murder story worthy of PD James or
Agatha Christie. Just as in many classic English detective
mysteries, this new novel opens with a group of characters
in a country house setting, with passions running high, and
simmering tensions beneath the elegant Regency surface. The
arrival of the handsome and debonair Henry Crawford and his
sister forces these tensions into the open, and sparks a
chain of events that leads inexorably to violence and death. Beautifully written, with an absolute faithfulness to the
language in use at the time, Murder at Mansfield Park is
both a good old-fashioned murder mystery that keeps the
reader guessing until the very last page, and a sparklingly
clever inversion of the original, which goes to the heart of
many of the questions raised by Jane Austen’s text. Austen’s
Mansfield Park is radically different from any of her other
works, and much of the pleasure of Lynn Shepherd’s novel
lies in the way it takes the characters and episodes in the
original, and turns them into a lighter, sharper, and more
playful book, with a new heroine at its centre – a heroine
who owes far more to the lively and spirited Elizabeth
Bennet, than the dreary and insipid Fanny Price. A treat for Austen lovers and murder mystery aficionados alike.
Comments
4 comments posted.
Re: Murder At Mansfield Park
I love a good mystery & Mr. Maddox sounds a bit like Sherlock Holmes. I'll be sure to look your book up!!
(Jean Merriott 1:24am November 2, 2010)
I love mysteries
(Gloria Walshver 5:47pm November 2, 2010)
I have a copy on my TBR pile, Lynn. Looking forward to reading it. Sounds fascinating.
(Monica Fairview 5:59pm November 2, 2010)
sounds good would love to read it.
(Kathy Weber 11:21pm November 2, 2010)
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