Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane: A Presumption of Death : A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Series #2) (Paperback)

from phoebesmum

Jill Paton Walsh expands upon some wartime essays of Sayers to give us a picture of Talboys in the shadow of WWII: rationing, Land Girls, evacuees, young airmen living under the constant shadow of death, spies and counter-spies and, in amongst it all, murder. Harriet is Peter-less for a large par...

from cee2

Harriet Vane is one of my favorite literary characters and this book gives a good idea of her intelligence and competence along with her sensitivity and loyalty. Ms. Paton Walsh has done well by her use of Ms. Sayers' Wimsey Papers to construct another mystery using the well loved characters of H...

from Elleneer

A delight to read. Details of life during wartime (WWII) in England are fascinating.. How technology has changed! They painted out road and railroad station signs, whereas today, GPS would find the location immediately. Loved the quotations from poetry and the Bible--how shallow, crass and commer...

from MrsRK

Book # 13 of the series, that was written based upon manuscript by Dorothy Sayers, the creator of charming Lord Peter Wimsey. Paton Walsh definitely is not Dorothy L. Sayers, but she does a very good job at bringing Lord and Lady Wimsey to life again. I think this book was better than her prior, ...

from atimco

It's WWII and the Wimsey family is caught up in the all-consuming war effort like the rest of the country. At the start of the Blitz, Harriet and the boys have retreated to their country home of Talboys while Peter and Bunter are doing highly sensitive intelligence work abroad. Working from Dorot...