A Presumption of Death - Hardcover

Paton Walsh, Jill; Sayers, Dorothy L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312291000 ISBN 13: 9780312291006

Verlag: Minotaur Books, 2003

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Book by Jill Paton Walsh Dorothy L Sayers

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Reseña del editor:

Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set at the start of 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. 75,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

Jill Paton Walsh is the author of six novels for adults, one of which, Knowledge of Angels, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Before writing for adults she made a career as a writer of children’s books and has won many literary prizes. In addition she is the author of two crime novels: The Wyndham Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award.

Dorothy L. Sayers, the greatest of the golden age detective novelists, was born in Oxford in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University and worked as a copywriter in an advertising agency from 1921 to 1932. Her aristocratic detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, became one of the most popular fictional heroes of the twentieth century. Dorothy L. Sayers also became famous for her religious plays, notably The Man Born to Be King, which was broadcast controversially during the war years, but she considered her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy to be her best work. She died in 1957.

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• Verlag: Minotaur Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312291000
• ISBN 13: 9780312291006
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384