in 1936 dorothy l sayers abandoned the last lord peter wimsey detective story sixty years later a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agents safe in london and awardwinning novelist jill paton walsh was commissioned to complete it the result of the pairing of dorothy l sayers with walsh was the international bestseller thrones dominations now following a presumption of death set during world war ii comes a new sayersinspired mystery featuring lord peter wimsey revisiting his very first case it was 1921 when lord peter wimsey first encountered the attenbury emeralds the recovery of the gems in lord attenburys dazzling heirloom collection made headlinesand launched a shellshocked young aristocrat on his career as a detectivethirty years later a happily married lord peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife the detective novelist harriet vane suddenly the new lord attenburygrandson of lord peters first clientseeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds as harriet and peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on english societyand peter who always cherished the liberties of a younger son faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the duke of denver after alljill paton walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time