Product Description: It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective...read more

Product Description: The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Now it is 1951: Lord Peter Wimsey has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, detective novelist Harriet Vane...read more

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.

Product Description: Prince Dhutmose has ordered a splendid tomb to be built for his final journey to the Land of the Dead. Pepi's father is to decorate it, but how can he paint the unimaginable: the terrible gods Horus the Hawk, Sebek the Crocodile, and Mertseger the Winged Cobra? Pepi knows he can help...read more

Product Description: As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

Product Description: When young Englishwoman Grace Darling spots a wreck offshore, she enlists the aid of her father to rescue the survivors--an act that brings her the adoration and rejection of her nation. By the author of A Chance Child.

Imogen Quy, the college nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University, puts her sleuthing skills to work to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the demise of a university research fellow, who plummets to his death from an old tower, as well as an undergraduate student who confront the suspected killer through an unorthodox production of a pirated version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. 20,000 first printing.

Imogen Quy returns to solve another intriguing Cambridge mystery, in the latest in an exciting series to rival Inspector Morse.

With her college on the verge of bankruptcy and her former lover a prime suspect in a double murder, Imogen Quy, a nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, launches her own investigation to get to the truth about the suspicious deaths of a billionaire and his unpleasant son-in-law. 20,000 first printing.

Imogen Quy of St Agatha's College, Cambridge, solves the mysteries surrounding the death of a billionaire financier. First Sir Julius Farran dies suddenly, followed shortly by his unpleasant son-in-law. With St Agatha's in danger of bankruptcy and Imogen's one-time lover one of the prime suspects, she decides to find out what really happened.

A novel of the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II chronicles fifty years in a small Eastern European town.

As he paints the lion, hawk, crocodile, and cobra that his son has managed to coax to serve as models for the decorations on the tomb of Prince Dhutmose, Pepi's father captures an even more important animal, in an exciting story that features an interactive name puzzle. Reprint.

The miners' work is hard, so they need their tasty pasties. When Thomas shares his meal with a strange, tiny miner, he is rewarded with a wish. But soon, more come and no pasty is big enough to satisfy them. Thomas regrets his kindness, but then he faces a bigger problem.

Sometimes Birdy watches her father row people across the sea, but when the old woman asks to be ferried across Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy she has second sight, but Birdy isn't sure she wants this gift. However, soon she finds that looking twice at things can bring unexpected results.

Fifty years in a small Eastern European town are chronicled in this novel, which details the effects of Communism on the lives of ordinary people in the aftermath of World War II. By the acclaimed author of Knowledge of Angels and Thrones, Dominations. Reprint. (view table of contents)

As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbor to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger.

Through a reflection of past experiences, a grandmother lovingly explains to her granddaughter how things were different in the world when she was growing up.

Product Description: After her artist mother dies, a daughter's search for her own past and the identity of her father takes her to a remote Cornwall fishing village. There she discovers her identity and her mother's art are irrevocably tied to a 1939 lifeboat disaster...read more

Once a year cousins Madge and Paul visit Goldengrove, their grandmother's idyllic Cornish home. One year, as summer turns to autumn and as they are drawn from childhood to maturity, their seemingly indomitable grandmother turns to winter, and the precious moments of innocence are swept away.

A fable-like tale set in the Middle Ages focuses on two outcasts, an atheistic prince and a wolf child confined to a nunnery, who become pawns in a theological controversy.

In the seventeeth-century village of Eyam, frightened villagers try to stop the plague from spreading by staying within the boundaries of the town, a pact that hampers young Mall's romance with Thomas Torre, a man from another village.

When her friend Richard refuses to share his toys, young Connie sets out to prove that her imagination is better than any toy and imagines herself a fairy castle and a locomotive that travels to distant lands.

The late, great mathematician Gideon Summerfield ought to be a safe subject for a biography, so why has it been so difficult to get the book written? Imogen's lodger Fran is close to dicovering a secret about Summerfield. She is in danger, and Fran must act before it is too late.

The author of The Wyndham Case returns with another mystery featuring Imogene Quy--school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge--about an unfinished biography, three scholars who died mysteriously, another who is missing, and a peculiar quilt pattern.