![]() The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury s dazzling heirloom collection made headlines and launched a shell shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered The Attenbury Emeralds. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers inspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, revisiting his very first case… Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent’s safe in London, and award winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Or was it?At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. 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. 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. 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. 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. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. ![]() Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Will Paton Walsh do it again? wondered Ruth Rendell in London’s Sunday Times. The transition is seamless, said the San Francisco Chronicle you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins. 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. ‘An excellent detective story and an excellent picture of a British advertising firm.’ New York Evening Post, Kliatt praises John Franklyn Robbins ‘deeply resonant and intelligent’ readings. In advertising, as Wimsey discovers, these are the tools of the trade. For Murder Must Advertise, critically acclaimed British author Dorothy Sayers creates an intriguing mix of promise, deception and disguise. Lord Wimsey will need all his skill, however, as he is drawn into investigating a suspicious death at the agency. Soon he is employing his unique blend of dry humor and unflappable wit in the jingles he writes for cigarettes and cereals. Taking up the bet, Wimsey hires on as copy writer at an advertising agency. A friend has challenged the affluent Lord Wimsey to earn his own way for a month. Lord Peter Wimsey, in his monocle and spats, is the quintessential British sleuth, and narrator John Franklyn Robbins conveys all of the dapper young man’s self possessed charm. Mystery on cassette! Narrated by John Franklyn Robbins. Copyright 1933 by Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming. Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Master’s Choice.Down by the Old Blood Stream (By:) (1971).Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month Of Mystery (By:) (1970).Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (With: Ellis Peters,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,Michael Gilbert,Carter Dickson,Julian May,Margot Bennett) (1965).Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me (By:Shirley Jackson,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,F.Alfred Hitchcock’s A Hangman’s Dozen (By:Donald E Westlake,Ray Bradbury,Robert Arthur,Richard Matheson,Richard Stark) (1962).Alfred Hitchcock Presents: More Stories for Late at Night (By:) (1962). ![]()
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