The Attenbury Emeralds : The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery by Jill Paton Walsh - 2012

Minotaur Books, 2012-01-31. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

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Minotaur Books, 2012-01-31. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.

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Walsh triumphantly follows 2003's A Presumption of Death, inspired by some letters Dorothy Sayers wrote depicting Peter Wimsey during WWII, with a wholly original interpretation of Sayers's golden age characters. In 1921, while Lord Peter was still convalescing from the nervous breakdown he suffered from his time in the WWI trenches, the aristocrat got involved in finding missing emeralds belonging to the Attenbury family. Thirty years later, the current Lord Attenbury, who's in dire financial straits, wishes to sell one of the jewels, "the king-stone," but a shadowy claimant challenges his ownership of it. When Wimsey and his detective novelist wife, Harriet Vane, look into the dispute, they discovery a chain of murders related to the emeralds. Walsh successfully recreates the tone and personalities of the originals and plausibly depicts the main characters later in life. Fans of literate period mysteries will clamor for more.

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Minotaur Books, 2012. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 338 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches.

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