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The Attenbury Emeralds

A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

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The Attenbury Emeralds

By: Jill Paton Walsh
Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
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About this listen

It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective.

Now it is 1951. A happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new young Lord Attenbury - grandson of Lord Peter's first client - seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921.

It will be the most intricate and challenging mystery he has ever faced....

©2010 Jill Paton Walsh and the Trustees of Anthony Fleming, deceased (P)2011 AudioGo Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Science Fiction Traditional Detectives

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I absolutely adore the LPW books by DLS and taken up by Jill Paton Walsh.

Lord Peter at his best

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The narrator really IS Lord Peter Whimsey. The author is practically indistinguishable from Dorothy Sayers.

Remarkable

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beautifully read , expertly crafted story, enjoyed to the end, delicately woven touches of romance too

excellent piece of Whimsey worthy of his creator,

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Excellent expressive reading by Edward Petherbridge made this complicated story enjoyable. It was very tenderly rendered.

A very complicated story

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A period of convalescence has given opportunity to listen to the entire Wimsey and Wimsey/Vane canon in series. This is the penultimate story as I understand the situation and the second with no input from Dorothy L Sayers.

The story is interesting enough and I am grateful to know a little more of Peter and Harriet as they mature. The writing just slightly lacks the elegance and sparkle of the early works perhaps because this is a product of more modern times. Still lots to be gleaned about the immediate post WW2 period, also some good references for which I am grateful being more able to appreciate Donne than when our paths crossed in my younger years. Worth the “token” but I wish the price included a pdf version that one could refer to afterwards.

Thanks to the author for extending the storyline and to the narrator for giving it style.

Good but straying

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