Drawing On The Events Of The Wimsey Papers, A Tale Set During The Blitz In 1940 London Finds Lord Peter Conducting Secret Business For The Foreign Office, While Harriet, Caring For The Family, Is Shocked By The Murder Of A Young Land Girl. Jill Paton Walsh And Dorothy L. Sayers. Mystery Written By Jill Paton Walsh Based On Dorothy Sayers's Descriptions Of The Wimseys Coping With Wartime Conditions In 1940.

A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-; Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957

Worth Publishers, Incorporated

St. Martin's Press

Minotaur Books

Wadsworth

A new Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery, 1st U.S. ed, New York, 2003

Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane, 1st U.S. ed, New York, 2003

1st U.S. ed., New York, New York State, 2003

United States, United States of America

Mystery written by Jill Paton Walsh based on Dorothy Sayers's descriptions of the Wimseys coping with wartime conditions in 1940.

Mystery written by Jill Paton Walsh based on Dorothy Sayers's descriptions of the Wimseys coping with wartime conditions in 1940.
Originally published: Great Britain, Hodder and Stoughton, c2002.

topic: Women; '; s Land Army (Great Britain)-Fiction.; Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character)-Fiction.; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)-Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945-England-Fiction.; Women detectives-England-London-Fiction.; London (England)-Fiction.

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Prologue
2. (p2) One
3. (p3) Two
4. (p4) Three
5. (p5) Four
6. (p6) Five
7. (p7) Six
8. (p8) Seven
9. (p9) Eight
10. (p10) Nine
11. (p11) Ten
12. (p12) Eleven
13. (p13) Twelve
14. (p14) Thirteen
15. (p15) Fourteen
16. (p16) Fifteen
17. (p17) Sixteen
18. (p18) Seventeen
19. (p19) Eighteen
20. (p20) Author's Note
21. (p21) Acknowledgements
22. (p22) Permissions

theme: Women; '; s Land Army (Great Britain)-Fiction.; Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character)-Fiction.; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)-Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945-England-Fiction.; Women detectives-England-London-Fiction.; London (England)-Fiction.

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

2023-06-28