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Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312291000
ISBN-139780312291006
eBay Product ID (ePID)1967318
Product Key Features
Book TitlePresumption of Death
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicMystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Historical, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
GenreFiction
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
Book SeriesLord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight23.4 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-036879
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Reviews"Sayers' fans are in Walsh's debt." ---San Francisco Chronicle "The setting is authentic and the story is gripping, but this is also a serious and committed book." --Barbara Reynolds, President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and author of Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, "Sayers' fans are in Walsh's debt." ---San Francisco Chronicle "The setting is authentic and the story is gripping, but this is also a serious and committed book." --Barbara Reynolds, President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and author ofDorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul, "Sayers' fans are in Walsh's debt." --- San Francisco Chronicle "The setting is authentic and the story is gripping, but this is also a serious and committed book." --Barbara Reynolds, President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and author of Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul
Series Volume Number2
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisSixty 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6066.A84P74 2003
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