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A Presumption of Death

A Presumption of Death is a 2002 Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers. The novel is Walsh's first original Lord Peter Wimsey novel, following Thrones, Dominations, which Sayers left as an unfinished manuscript, and was completed by Walsh. A Presumption of Death is written by Walsh, except for excerpts from The Wimsey Papers.

This article is about the detective novel. For the legal term, see Presumption of death.

Author

Jill Paton Walsh

English

Lord Peter Wimsey

Crime novel

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

November 2002

United Kingdom

Print (hardback & paperback)

0-340-82065-9

59499647

Thrones, Dominations 

The Attenbury Emeralds 

Bungo was named, though he did not appear, in Sayers' novel , as an expert on codes. During his conversation with Harriet, she mentions how she and Peter cracked the Playfair cipher message in that novel.

Have His Carcase

Harriet realises that the key to Peter's cipher is the sonnet that Harriet started and Peter completed in .

Gaudy Night

Harriet recalls her own trial for the murder of her lover, Phillip Boyes, depicted in .

Strong Poison

and Dean Letitia Martin (and Miss De Vine) previously appeared in Strong Poison and Gaudy Night respectively.

Miss Katherine "Kitty" Climpson

Annotations to "A Presumption of Death"