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The Late Scholar

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9781483097640 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 5, 2015), cover price $34.95

The Late Scholar: Library Edition

Product Description: Lord Peter Wimsey and his detective novelist wife Harriet Vane return in Jill Paton Walsh's brilliant new continuation of Dorothy L. Sayers's classic mysteries.When a dispute among the fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is the Visitor-charged with the task of resolving the issue...read more

By Matthew Brenher (narrator) and Jill Paton Walsh

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9781483097626 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 5, 2015), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: Lord Peter Wimsey and his detective novelist wife Harriet Vane return in Jill Paton Walsh's brilliant new continuation of Dorothy L.

9781483097633 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 5, 2015), cover price $29.95

The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate

Product Description: 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 Oxford, where a long and literate courtship finally culminated in their engagement...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9781250032799 | Minotaur Books, June 17, 2014, cover price $25.99

Paperback:

9781250068330 | Minotaur Books, July 14, 2015, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In Jill Paton Walsh's fourth installment in her inspired continuation of Dorothy L.

The Late Scholar: Based on the Characters of Dorothy L. Sayers

Product Description: When a dispute among the fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey is charged with the task of resolving the issue. At first the dispute seems a simple difference of opinion about a valuable manuscript that some of the fellows regard as nothing but an insurance liability, which should be sold to finance a speculative purchase of land...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9781444760866 | Hodder & Stoughton, December 5, 2013, cover price $31.10 | About this edition: When a dispute among the fellows of St.

A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Product Description: Sixty 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 manuscriptâwith extraordinary success. âThe transition is seamless,â said the San Francisco Chronicle; âyou cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9781250017444 | Reprint edition (Minotaur Books, November 27, 2012), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Sixty years after Dorothy L.

The Dolphin Crossing

Product Description: A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, The Dolphin Crossing (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels for adults.The Dolphin Crossing is set in 1940 at the height of the Second World War, and concerns two boys: John, a boarding school boy, and Pat, an evacuee from a London slum...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780571296248 | Gardners Books, November 15, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, The Dolphin Crossing (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels for adults.

9780440403104 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1990), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Pat Riley and John Aston take John's father's boat across the English Channel to help British soldiers stranded on the shores of Dunkirk, little realizing the kinds of risks they are taking, and the sort of courage their journey will demand.

The Attenbury Emeralds

Product Description: 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 agentâs safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9781611730210 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, April 1, 2011), cover price $35.95 | About this edition: In 1936, Dorothy L.

The Attenbury Emeralds: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Product Description: The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenburys dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9780312674540, titled "The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery" | Minotaur Books, January 4, 2011, cover price $25.99 | also contains The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

CD/Spoken Word:

9781609981488 | Unabridged edition (Audiogo, March 15, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenburys dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921.

The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Product Description: 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...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9780312674540 | Minotaur Books, January 4, 2011, cover price $25.99 | also contains The Attenbury Emeralds: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery

Paperback:

9781250002594 | Reprint edition (Minotaur Books, January 31, 2012), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In 1936, Dorothy L.

Pepi and the Secret Names: Help Pepi Crack the Hieroglyphic Code

Product Description: Prince Dhutmose has commanded 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 Lions of the Horizon, the terrible gods Horus the Hawk and Sebek the crocodile, and Mertseger the deadly Winged Cobra? Pepi decides to find real-life models for his father, using his knowledge of secret names...read more

By Fiona French (illustrator) and Jill Paton Walsh

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9781845078737 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, September 1, 2009, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Prince Dhutmose has commanded a splendid tomb to be built for his final journey to the Land of the Dead.

The Green Book

Product Description: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, it seems that the four-year journey has been a success...read more

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Reinforced:

9780606032209 | Demco Media, September 1, 1986, cover price $13.55 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: 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.

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9781439584811 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.95 | also contains The Green Book | About this edition: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship.

Grace

Product Description: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck. Based on true accounts, this is the story of a woman whose quiet life crumbled around her after she became a national hero.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9781435279438 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 16, 2008), cover price $15.95 | also contains Grace | About this edition: On September 7, 1838, twenty-two-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through turbulent seas to rescue the survivors of a shipwreck.

The Bad Quarto: An Imogen Quy Mystery

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780312354091 | Minotaur Books, April 3, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Imogen Quy puts her sleuthing skills to work to uncover the truth behind a research fellow's mysterious death, and an undergraduate student confronts the suspected killer through an unorthodox production of Hamlet.

The Bad Quarto

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

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780340839218 | Hodder & Stoughton, February 22, 2007, cover price $37.35 | About this edition: Imogen Quy returns to solve another intriguing Cambridge mystery, in the latest in an exciting series to rival Inspector Morse.

Debts of Dishonor: An Imogen Quy Mystery

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780312355364 | Minotaur Books, April 4, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: With her college near bankruptcy and her former lover a suspect in a double murder, Imogen Quy, a nurse at St.

Debts of Dishonour

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780340839195 | Hodder & Stoughton, February 27, 2006, cover price $40.60 | About this edition: Imogen Quy of St Agatha's College, Cambridge, solves the mysteries surrounding the death of a billionaire financier.

Pepi and the Secret Names

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.

By Fiona French (illustrator) and Jill Paton Walsh

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9780688134280 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: As he paints the animals 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

Paperback:

9781845073510 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, March 30, 2005), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: As he paints the animals 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.

9780711210899 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, November 1, 2001, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: As he paints the animals 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.

Thomas And the Tinners

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780340795231 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 25, 2001), cover price $10.75 | About this edition: The miners' work is hard, so they need their tasty pasties.

Birdy and the Ghosties

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780374307165 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of second sight until the day the ghosties came.

Paperback:

9780340795248 | New edition (Gardners Books, October 25, 2001), cover price $10.65 | About this edition: Sometimes Birdy watches her father row people across the sea, but when the old woman asks to be ferried across Birdy jumps in too.

9780374406752 | Reprint edition (Sunburst, September 1, 1991), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of second sight until the day the ghosties came.

A Desert in Bohemia

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)

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780783894300 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, May 1, 2001), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: 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.

9780312262631 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, December 1, 2000), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 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.

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9780452282681 | Reissue edition (Plume, November 1, 2001), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: 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.

9780552998642 | New edition (Transworld Pub, September 1, 2001), cover price $10.80 | also contains A Desert in Bohemia | About this edition: 1945, somewhere in Central Europe, a young women takes refuge in an abandoned castle.

A Desert in Bohemia

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Reinforced:

9780606223126, titled "Desert in Bohemia" | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $21.61 | About this edition: 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.

The Green Book

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9780374327781, titled "Green Book" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1982, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780312641221 | Square Fish, March 13, 2012, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship.

9780374428020 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1986), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: 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.

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9780785750444 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: 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.

Gaffer Samson's Luck

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.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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9780833546890 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An outcast among the children in his new town in the Fens, James is befriended by ailing Gaffer Samson, who gives James his battered bicycle and sends him in search of the 'luck' he buried seventy years earlier

When I Was Little Like You

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.

By Stephen Lambert (illustrator) and Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9780670876082 | Viking Childrens Books, November 1, 1997, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A grandmother tells her grandson what life was like when she was as little as he is now.

9780670867998 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: 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

Paperback:

9780140558296 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A grandmother tells her grandson what life was like when she was as little as he is now.

The Serpentine Cave

After her mother dies, Marian's search for her unknown father leads her to the coast of Cornwall, where she finds that her heritage and her mother's art are closely tied to St. Ives's biggest tragedy, the fishing boat disaster of 1939.

By Jill Paton Walsh

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Hardcover:

9780708990018 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1998), cover price $29.99

9780312169992 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: After her mother dies, Marian's search for her unknown father leads her to the coast of Cornwall, where she finds that her heritage and her mother's art are closely tied to St.

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