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Jill paton walsh does a great job with the sayers legacy i cant imagine anyone doing better
Walsh carries on the lord peterharriet vane characters very well giving them them new dimensions as they become parents as harr... Read More
I am very fond of the work done by dorothy sayers and jill paton walsh
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- This product had a total of 372 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 2 2020.
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Walsh based this book on letters sayers published during the war purporting to be from her characters in the lord peter whimsy series
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A presumption of death is the second of four books in that continuation
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I thoroughly loved reading this but the early part of the murder investigation dragged on a bit without all the seemingly relevant parts appearing cohesive
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Walsh picks up where sayers left off
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The 19391940 events in england were a blur to me but here they are rendered in heartrending and compassionate detail not as backdrop to murder but as integrated completely
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The murders seem almost an afterthought but one neednt worry both are solved but not before lord peter returns from his spy mission
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I have read 3 of the harriet vane books so far completely out of sequence
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I love all the lord peter wimsey books but seeing the ignorance of european history in maine or perhaps in the united states in general i suspect that the allusions made even to fairly recent ww ii history not to mention latin quotations from horace or wherever fly right over most peoples heads
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