A Presumption of Death - A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Jill Paton Walsh; Dorothy L. Sayers
Minotaur Books (2003)
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Mystery Fiction
Vane, Harriet (Fictitious Character), Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious Character), World War, 1939-1945/ England/ Fiction
Hardcover 9780312291006
English
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. 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.
Product Details
LoC Classification PR6066.A84 .P74 2003
LoC Control Number 2002036879
Dewey 823.914
Cover Price $24.95
No. of Pages 384
Height x Width 9.4 x 6.4  inch
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