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The Attenbury Emeralds : Return to Golden Age Glamour in this Enthralling Gem of a Mystery

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'A delight.' - Irish Times'A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery . . . a gem of a period puzzle' - Financial TimesThirty years ago, Lord Peter Wimsey encountered the Attenbury emeralds.

The recovery of Lord Attenbury's magnificent gem made headlines - and launched the shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Now it is 1951: a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Then the new Lord Attenbury - the grandson of Lord Peter's first client - seeks his help again, this time to prove who owns the gigantic emerald that Wimsey last saw in 1921. It will be the most intricate and challenging mystery he has ever faced . . .

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Hodder Paperback
0340995742 / 9780340995747
Paperback / softback
823.914
26/05/2011
United Kingdom
English
Modern crime
xiv, 338 p.
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010.