- Women detectives, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Harriet Vane (Fictitious character), Fiction
Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.
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Classical in form, resolved, nostalgic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Jill Paton Walsh
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Paperbacks, The Audio Partners, Mystery Masters, Hodder Education Group
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781572703223
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- Women detectives
- Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Harriet Vane (Fictitious character)
- Fiction
- Women's Land Army (Great Britain)
- World War, 1939-1945
- Large type books
- London (england), fiction
- Vane, harriet (fictitious character), fiction
- Wimsey, peter, lord (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
“'Whoever, for example, Lady Peter,' said Miss Agnes Twitterton, 'is that?'”
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