The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate

By Jill Paton Walsh

Book Overview

In Jill Paton Walsh's fourth installment in her inspired continuation of Dorothy L. Sayers's acclaimed mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey and his detective novelist wife, Harriet Vane, revisit their beloved... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250032792
• ISBN13: 9781250032799
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.2" x 6.4"

Customer Reviews

The continuing mysteries of Lord Peter Wimsey detective series.

Gerald Wimsey, the Duke of Denver, now dead, and not another pretender to the title, left Lord Peter to become the Duke of Denver. Meanwhile, at Oxford University College of St. Severin, named after Boethius, the Warden is missing. So, it is up to the "Visitor" to help with certain decisions, including the disposition of a unique m-a-n-u-s-c-r-i-p-t. So, "Your Grace" Wimsey finds out that now he is the Visitor. First, Peter needed to find out what a visitor is. We have several overlapping mysteries, such as “the missing Warden,” why everyone is so heated up over the disposition of the m-a-n-u-s-c-r-i-p-t, and there are a few other dispatched people tossed in. The story gets convoluted by the overlying plots, but the plots are not ridiculously unreasonable. If you are astute, all the clues are there. Aside from the plots, Jill Paton Walsh includes all the sentimental Oxford history of Peter and Harriet and matches, if not exceeds, Dorothy L. Sayers' originals. I read the hard copy, which is best for keeping in the library for future reading.