Jill Paton Walsh
A Presumption of Death
By: Jill Paton Walsh
Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set at the start of 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...
Published: Aug 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Pages: 378
The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. 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...
Published: Jan 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 352
A Parcel of Patterns (Aerial Fiction)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
'A parcel of patterns brought the plague to Eyam. A parcel sent up from London to George Vicars, a journeyman tailor, who was lodging with Mrs. Cooper in a cottage by the west end of the churchyard.So begins Mall Percival's account of how...
Published: Sep 1992
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - General
Pages: 144
The Emperor's Winding Sheet
By: Jill Paton Walsh
In this exciting historical adventure, a famished, exhausted, and terrified boy drops from the tree in which he has hidden just as Constantine, last Emperor of the Romans, is about to receive his crown. Thus Piers Barber, shipwrecked young seaman...
Published: Mar 2004
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Action & Adventure
Pages: 251
A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
By: Jill Paton Walsh
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...
Published: Nov 2012
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Pages: 384