The Attenbury Emeralds [SEP] series
The Attenbury Emeralds
The Attenbury Emeralds is the third Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton Walsh. Featuring characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers, it was written with the co-operation and approval of Sayers' estate. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton in September 2010.
Plot summary.
Plot summary 1921.
"The Attenbury Emeralds" recounts how Lord Peter begins his hobby of amateur sleuthing in 1921 by becoming involved in the recovery of the Attenbury Emeralds. Lord Peter's "first
Mary to Talboys, together with her own children – both to keep them safe from bombed London and to free their parents to help the war effort.
"The Attenbury Emeralds", Walsh's latest addition to the Wimsey series, includes a flashback to Wimsey and Parker's first meeting in 1921, never described in the original Sayers books. As depicted here, Wimsey was a shell-shocked World War I veteran who accidentally discovered in himself a talent for detection when present in the house of another aristocratic family when emerald