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Jill Paton Walsh

    29. April 1937 – 18. Oktober 2020

    Jill Paton Walsh verfasst scharfsinnige und zum Nachdenken anregende Erzählungen, die sich mit den Tiefen menschlicher Erfahrung auseinandersetzen. Ihr Stil ist zugleich poetisch und geradlinig, was es den Lesern ermöglicht, in ihre komplexen Charaktere und Themen einzutauchen. In ihren Geschichten erforscht sie Themen wie Identität, Erinnerung und moralische Ambiguität und schafft Werke, die lange nach der letzten Seite nachklingen. Ihre unverkennbare Stimme und ihr literarisches Können machen sie zu einer bedeutenden Autorin.

    Jill Paton Walsh
    Fireweed
    The Dolphin Crossing
    Und vergib uns unsere Schuld. Roman
    In feiner Gesellschaft
    Mord in mageren Zeiten
    Das Wissen der Engel
    • 2022

      'Here I have set down all that I know of the Plague'It's 1665 and Mall Percival is a shepherd girl living in a Derbyshire village.

      A Parcel of Patterns
    • 2013

      Peter Wimsey is pleased to discover that along with a Dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college. When the fellows appeal to him to resolve a dispute, he and Harriet set off happily to spend some time in Oxford. But the dispute turns out to be embittered. The voting is evenly balanced between two passionate parties - evenly balanced, that is, until several of the fellows unexpectedly die. The Warden has a casting vote, but the Warden has disappeared. And the causes of death of the deceased fellows bear an uncanny resemblance to the murder methods in Peter's past cases - methods that Harriet has used in her published novels.

      The Late Scholar
    • 2012

      The Dolphin Crossing

      • 180 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden
      4,0(5)Abgeben

      John, a boarding school boy, and Pat, an evacuee from a London slum. Together John and Pat make a daring plan to sail a boat across the English Channel to Dunkirk. Foolhardy as their plan may seem, the boys are sure they must do something to help the stranded British soldiers.

      The Dolphin Crossing
    • 2011

      In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pairing of Dorothy L. Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers-inspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, revisiting his very first case. . . . It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom collection made headlines—and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of Lord Peter's first client—seeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds. As Harriet and Peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on English society—and Peter, who always cherished the liberties of a younger son, faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the Duke of Denver after all—Jill Paton Walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time.

      The Attenbury Emeralds
    • 2007

      The Bad Quarto

      • 269 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,5(18)Abgeben

      Another foolhardy Cambridge college-climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha's, and the verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy. But Imogen Quy - her name rhymes with 'why' - can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen has to look into it, uncovering more crimes than she expected...

      The Bad Quarto
    • 2006

      A Piece of Justice

      • 240 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden
      3,5(16)Abgeben

      Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh returns with the second Imogen Quy mystery

      A Piece of Justice
    • 2006

      Debts of Dishonour

      • 272 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden
      3,7(27)Abgeben

      Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone but Imogen Quy: Farran asks her to come and work for him. She declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to look into it. His death left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To save her college, Imogen starts to cast her cool eye over the financier's heirs, employees and enemies. What is right about the death of Sir Julius? What is wrong about it? And why did it happen? After all, her name rhymes with ''why''.

      Debts of Dishonour
    • 2002

      Mord in mageren Zeiten

      • 377 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden
      3,8(275)Abgeben

      Dorothy L. Sayers allerletzter Fall England 1940: Harriet Vane – nun Lady Peter Wimsey – hat sich mit ihren Kindern in die beschauliche Countryside zurückgezogen. Doch auch hier wird es nicht langweilig. Die in der Umgebung stationierten Royal Air Force Soldaten und die hübschen Mädchen vom Landdienst sorgen für reichlich Unterhaltung in Talboys. Bis eines Tages aus dem Spiel Ernst wird und die schöne Wendy tot auf der Straße liegt. Ein Opfer des Krieges ist sie jedoch ebensowenig wie der nächste Tote. Ein Fall für Lord Peter und seine scharfsinnige Ehegattin.

      Mord in mageren Zeiten
    • 2001

      It is 1945. As the German Army retreats and the tide of war sweeps back over Eastern Europe, the lives of the inhabitants are changed forever.

      A Desert in Bohemia
    • 1999

      Frau Bullion, Untermieterin von Imogen Quy, schreibt eine Biografie über den Mathematiker Gideon Summerfield und stößt dabei auf ein dunkles Geheimnis aus dessen Vergangenheit.

      Und vergib uns unsere Schuld. Roman