Jill Paton Walsh

Mall Percival is one of very few who survive the Plague that devastated Eyam, England in 1665. She tells her story here.

Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during 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.

This mystery finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from thirty years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds.

Lord Peter and Harriet return to the scene of their literate courtship to resolve an Oxford University dispute that is complicated by the disappearance of several prominent Fellows.

With her college near bankruptcy and her former lover a suspect in a double murder, Imogen Quy, a nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, launches her own investigation into the suspicious deaths of a billionaire and his unpleasant son-in-law.

It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The disappearance and subsequent recovery of the king-stone emerald 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...