In 1921 , The Attenbury Emeralds were stolen and Lord Peter Wimsey made headlines when he recovered them.
Now its 1951. There is a new Lord Attenbury and a baffling new mystery about the emeralds - the most intricate and challenging case Lord Peter Wimsey has ever faced.
I'm not normally a fan of new authors taking over the creations of others, the Bond books spring to mind .
Paton Walsh firstly finished Sayers unfinished book, Thrones , Dominations, and has now gone on and written three of her own. This is the first one I've read and it is excellent.
This story features all the Sayers character's and she mimics her style well.
This book has a lot of Wimsey's wife, Harriet Vane, who has long been one of my favourite characters.
The story itself is a good one with lots of red herrings but is solvable with the clues to the murderer given very subtly but if attention is paid the reader will pick it up.
I'll now be looking for her other Wimsey books . A nice read.
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