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SUMMARY:British Mysteries Book Club -  A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
DESCRIPTION:Do you love British Mysteries? I know I do! I love reading them 
 and watching them on Acorn and Britbox. Each month we will read a British 
 Mystery\, in particular one that has been made into a TV show or movie. 
 Already read it? Watch the show and discuss with us the differences. 
 Already read it\, but forgot what it was about? Re-read it and join us for 
 some great conversation and community!\n\nThese stories about the most 
 talented British sleuths are always entertaining and each us at the edge of 
 our seats! \n\nThe Zoom Link will be sent to you two hours before the 
 meeting.\n\nThis month we will be reading A Presumption of Death by Dorothy 
 L. Sayers\n\n\n\n\nSixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished 
 Lord Peter Wimsey novel\, Thrones Dominations\, Booker Prize finalist Jill 
 Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with 
 extraordinary success. “The transition is seamless\,” said the San 
 Francisco Chronicle\; “you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh 
 begins.”\n\n“Will Paton Walsh do it again?” wondered Ruth Rendell in 
 London’s Sunday Times. “We must hope so.”\n\nJill Paton Walsh 
 fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began 
 another Wimsey novel\, she did leave clues. Drawing on “The Wimsey 
 Papers\,” in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping 
 with wartime conditions\, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 
 1940\, at the start of the Blitz in London.\n\nLord Peter is abroad on 
 secret business for the Foreign Office\, while Harriet Vane\, now Lady 
 Peter Wimsey\, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war 
 has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous 
 land-girls scandalize the villagers\, and the blackout makes the nighttime 
 lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of 
 the war so constantly that\, when the village’s first air-raid practice 
 ends with a real body on the ground\, it’s almost a shock to hear the 
 doctor declare that it was not enemy action\, but plain\, old-fashioned 
 murder. Or was it?\n\nAt the request of the overstretched local police\, 
 Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is 
 every bit as literate\, ingenious\, and compelling as the best of original 
 Lord Peter Wimsey novels.\n\n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Zoom\, Middletown Free Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Middletown Free Library":MAILTO:middletown@delcolibraries.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Middletown Free Library":MAILTO:middletown@delcolibraries.org
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URL:https://delcolibraries.libcal.com/event/15271667
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