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A presumption of death a new Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane mystery

During the Blitz in 1940 London, Lord Peter conducts secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane is shocked by the murder of a young girl during air raid practice.

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  • "During the Blitz in 1940 London, Lord Peter conducts secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane is shocked by the murder of a young girl during air raid practice."
  • "During the Blitz in 1940 London, Lord Peter conducts secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane is shocked by the murder of a young girl during air raid practice."@en
  • "In 1998, Jill Paton Walsh completed Dorothy L. Sayers' last, unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones, Dominations to widespread praise. Here, using "The Wimsey Papers", in which Sayers described life in Britain during World War II, Walsh devises an irresistible story set in 1940 at the start of the Blitz. While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes rural lanes as sinister as London's alleys. And when a practice air-raid ends with a young woman's death, it's almost a shock to hear that the cause is not enemy action, but murder. Or is it? With Peter away, Harriet sets out to find out whodunit ... and the chilling reason why."@en
  • "Set in 1940 during the blitz in England, Harriot Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, flees with her children to the family country estate. However, no place is safe in a county with several airfields. A girl is discovered dead after an air-raid drill. She turns out to be murdered, rather than a victim of enemy fire originally thought by the townspeople. Lord Peter returns from assignment abroad to join Lady Harriet in finding the murderer before he preys on someone else."
  • "While England is in the midst of a German bombing raid, Lord Peter Wimsey is away on business, leaving wife Harriet with their children alone in the safety of the countryside. However, the gentle English countryside has become as rough and tumble as the city, and after a practice air raid, a young woman is found murdered. In Peter's absence, the locals seek the help of the equally brilliant Harriet."@en
  • "Mystery written by Jill Paton Walsh based on Dorothy Sayers's descriptions of the Wimseys coping with wartime conditions in 1940."
  • "1940. Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them; glamorous pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers. Then the first air raid practice ends with a very real body on the ground - not a war casualty but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder."@en
  • "Set in the1940's at the start of the Blitz, Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their children to safety in the country. But there's no escape from war: rumors of spies abound, glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes rural lanes as sinister as London's alleys. And when a practice air-raid ends with a young woman's death, it's almost a shock to hear that the cause is not enemy action, but murder. Or is it? With Peter away, Harriet sets out to find out whodunit and the chilling reason why."@en

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  • "Sound recordings"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
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  • "A Presumption of death"
  • "A presumption of death a new Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane mystery"@en
  • "A presumption of death a new Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane mystery"
  • "A presumption of death"
  • "A presumption of death"@en
  • "A presumption of death : [a new Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery]"@en

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