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Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
Sayers is the dean of English mystery writing. If you have not read a Lord Peter Wimsey novel, you are not a mystery fan. (And for gamers, they are wonderful introductions to England between the wars.) Although she died in 1953, there were no new Lord Peter mysteries after the onset of WW2. She did, though, leave an unfinished novel which the Sayers estate agreed to have finished by Walsh.
Was it successful? Not as much as ardent Sayers fans hoped it would be. It was readable and interesting, but it was clunky. Impediments were admitted to this meeting of true minds.
If you read Sayers and want to read more, give it a shot. If you've not read any Lord Peter, you'd do better to start with Nine Tailors of Murder Must Advertise.
A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
A much better effort, perhaps because the Sayers source material was a series of "family letters" of the Wimseys during WW2. In this story, Lady Peter finds herself having to deal with a corpse found in the middle of the village street after an air raid drill.
Lady Peter? Yes, in Strong Poison Lord Peter met the mystery writer Harriet Vane who became his wife in the last Sayers alone novel, Busman's Honeymoon. Don't ask me to explain the intricacies of English noble titles, though, just accept that the wife of the younger son of a duke becomes Lady Peter, not lady Harriet. Okay.
This story is tied up in evacuees, German spies, and a black market in pigs. Much more readable, and much better written.
Recommended.
Sayers is the dean of English mystery writing. If you have not read a Lord Peter Wimsey novel, you are not a mystery fan. (And for gamers, they are wonderful introductions to England between the wars.) Although she died in 1953, there were no new Lord Peter mysteries after the onset of WW2. She did, though, leave an unfinished novel which the Sayers estate agreed to have finished by Walsh.
Was it successful? Not as much as ardent Sayers fans hoped it would be. It was readable and interesting, but it was clunky. Impediments were admitted to this meeting of true minds.
If you read Sayers and want to read more, give it a shot. If you've not read any Lord Peter, you'd do better to start with Nine Tailors of Murder Must Advertise.
A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
A much better effort, perhaps because the Sayers source material was a series of "family letters" of the Wimseys during WW2. In this story, Lady Peter finds herself having to deal with a corpse found in the middle of the village street after an air raid drill.
Lady Peter? Yes, in Strong Poison Lord Peter met the mystery writer Harriet Vane who became his wife in the last Sayers alone novel, Busman's Honeymoon. Don't ask me to explain the intricacies of English noble titles, though, just accept that the wife of the younger son of a duke becomes Lady Peter, not lady Harriet. Okay.
This story is tied up in evacuees, German spies, and a black market in pigs. Much more readable, and much better written.
Recommended.