Jill Paton Walsh has done an excellent job in general with her continuation of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, but the plot if this one was beyond tedious beyond belief. The endless time lines of who had the wretched emeralds when were quite stupefyingly boring. It was like the mechanistic plots of the early D.L. Sayers with the tide tables and so on/5(). Back in Peter was a guest at the Attenbury's country house to celebrate their daughter's engagement. On the night when the engagement was due to be announced the famous Attenbury Emeralds go missing and only Lord Peter can find out where they went. Based on the characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane.
Walsh returns with a mystery based on characters created by British crime writer Dorothy L. Sayers (). The former Harriet Vane, reading the obituary of Lord Attenbury, asks her husband, Lord Peter Wimsey, about his first case, finding the lost Attenbury emeralds. The Attenbury Emeralds: Lord Peter Wimsey's First Case Jill Paton Walsh, read by Edward Petherbridge, AudioGo, unabridged, eight CDs, 8 hrs., $ ISBN More By and About This. The Attenbury Emeralds is the third Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton bltadwin.ruing characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers, it was written with the co-operation and approval of Sayers' bltadwin.ru was published by Hodder Stoughton in September
Jill Paton Walsh. Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, CBE, FRSL (née Bliss; 29 April – 18 October ), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker prize -nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and the Peter Wimsey – Harriet Vane mysteries. Back in Peter was a guest at the Attenbury's country house to celebrate their daughter's engagement. On the night when the engagement was due to be announced the famous Attenbury Emeralds go missing and only Lord Peter can find out where they went. The Attenbury Emeralds is the third Lord Peter Wimsey - Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton Walsh. Featuring characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers, it was written with the co-operation and approval of Sayers' estate. It was published by Hodder Stoughton in September
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