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Decades later, a legendary emerald mystery resurfaces, testing a famed detective.

The Attenbury Emeralds

Return to Golden Age Glamour in this Enthralling Gem of a Mystery

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    12 July 2011

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Summary

It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury’s most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective.

Now it is 1951: a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new young Lord Attenbury - grandson of Lord Peter’s first client - seeks his help again, t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340995747
ISBN-10:0340995742
Author:Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:12 July 2011
Weight:280g
Dimensions:197mm x 132mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

A delight. - Irish Times

Sayers’s fans won’t be disappointed, and newcomers are in for a treat - Laura Wilson, Guardian

Sayers would not have recognised that it wasn’t her own work. - Marcel Berlins, The Times

A great deal of fun. - Natasha Cooper TLS

An absolute treat: civilised, intelligent and spellbinding… - Barry Forshaw, Daily Express

A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery; not a pastiche but a gem of a period puzzle that belongs on the shelf beside the Wimsey originals. - Christopher Fowler, Financial Times

An enjoyable and clever concoction … a good puzzle … skilled portrait of the austere postwar world. - Jessica Mann, Literary Review

Wit, worldly wisdom and literary jokes … As a Peter Wimsey story, it should give unalloyed pleasure to Sayers’ fans: and simply in its own right as a novel, it makes joyous light reading. - Anthony Lejeune, Tablet

About The Author

Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh, born in 1937, is also the author of many non-crime novels for adults: the fourth of these, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children’s books and has won many literary prizes.

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