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A Presumption of Death - A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Paperback)
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A Presumption of Death - A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Paperback)
Series: Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, 2
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Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter
Wimsey novel, "Thrones Dominations," Booker Prize finalist Jill
Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the
manuscript--with extraordinary success. "The transition is
seamless," said the "San Francisco Chronicle"; "you cannot tell
where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins."
"Will Paton Walsh do it again?" wondered Ruth Rendell in London's
"Sunday Times." "We must hope so."
Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in "A Presumption of Death."
Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave
clues. Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers," in which Sayers showed
various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh
has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the
Blitz in London.
Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office,
while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children
to safety in the country. But war has followed them
there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls
scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime
lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds
them of the war so constantly that, when the village's first
air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it's almost
a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action,
but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it?
At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet
reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is
every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of
original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
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Imprint: |
Minotaur Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, 2 |
Release date: |
August 2004 |
First published: |
November 2012 |
Authors: |
Jill Paton Walsh
• Dorothy L Sayers
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Dimensions: |
213 x 137 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-250-01744-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
1-250-01744-0 |
Barcode: |
9781250017444 |
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