Darkness at Pemberley: When the Detective Knows—but Cannot Prove It
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What happens when the detective solves the murder—but cannot prove it?
In this Saturday Night Theatre Companion, we return to the BBC’s 1973 production of Darkness at Pemberley, adapted from the remarkable 1932 novel by T. H. White, years before The Sword in the Stone and The Once and Future King.
It begins like a classic Golden Age puzzle: mysterious deaths, a Cambridge college, an impossible crime and Inspector Buller patiently working toward the truth.
But then White does something unexpected.
The detective knows who did it. The murderer knows that he knows…
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