A Presumption of Death (audiobook)
The Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mysteries, book 2
By Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Edward Petherbridge
9.5 hrs • Unabridged
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.
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A Presumption of Death is a mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely
on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers. The Wimsey Papers were a
series of articles published by Sayers during World War II, purporting to be
letters written between the various Wimseys during the war (similar to
Busman's Honeymoon, Sayers's last completed Wimsey novel, the novel's
prologue consists entirely of selections from these letters).
The novel is set in 1940 wartime England and features Sayer's famous sleuth,
Lord Peter Wimsey, and his wife, detective novelist Harriet Vane.
Plot
Harriet has evacuated her family to the Wimseys' country house, Talboys (in
Hertfordshire), taking with her two children, along with the three children of
her sister-in-law, Lady Mary, and Peter's venerable old housekeeper, Mrs.
Trapp. Peter and Bunter are away on an undercover assignment.
During a practice air raid, a young woman is murdered in the village, and
Superintendent Kirk recruits Harriet to help solve the murder, partly because
the police are too busy organizing all the changes necessitated by the war
and partly because as the wife of a detective, and as a crime novelist she is
the best qualified person to find the murderer.
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