Writer Dorothy Sayers was one of the mystery authors from the "Golden age of detective fiction." Along with Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and Josephine Tey, Sayers brought crime novels into popularity in the 1920s through the 1950s. In 1996 award-winning novelist Jill Patton Walsh was commissioned to complete Sayers's unfinished last book, Thrones and Dominations. Now The Attenbury Emeralds is a new novel inspired by Lord Peter Wimsey's first case. It's now 1951 and World War II has been over for six years. Wimsey and mystery author wife Harriet Vane live in London with their three sons.
Now thirty years after the first incident the present Lord Attenbury is having financial problems and wants to sell the large emerald. When Wimsey and his wife look into the trail of clues they find a chain of murders linked to the jewels. Fans of period mysteries will hope for more in this series.
No comments:
Post a Comment