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In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940. Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers; the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Then the village's first air raid practise ends with a very real body on the ground - not a war casualty but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And even before the second body is found, Lord Peter Wimsey and his brilliant wife are on their way to finding the killer.
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A presumption of death, Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers
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- Released
- 2003
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
- Released
- 2003
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0340820675
- ISBN13
- 9780340820674
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Classics, Detective Fiction, British Literature, England, Investigation, Golden Age of English Detective Fiction (1920–1939)
- First published
- 1926
- Original title
- The Clouds of Witness
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
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- In A Presumption of Death, Jill Paton Walsh tells how World War II changed the lives of Peter, Harriet and their growing family. The story opens in 1940. Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in the country. But the war has followed them: glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalise the villagers; the blackout makes the night-time lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Then the village's first air raid practise ends with a very real body on the ground - not a war casualty but a case of plain, old-fashioned murder. And even before the second body is found, Lord Peter Wimsey and his brilliant wife are on their way to finding the killer.