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title: "The Attenbury Emeralds: A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries Book 3)"
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# The Attenbury Emeralds: A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries Book 3)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Something's Missing
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2020*

Well, it's a well-told story leading to only a few dissatisfied thoughts, like, "Why didn't they have the jewels in a bank vault?" (that would be a spoiler if I said more) but mostly -- well, fun as it is, as good as the mystery part of it is, it just isn't Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. These characters have the names, but . . . Dorothy Sayers was an Oxford graduate: brilliant, erudite, fluent in Latin, Greek, French, given to quoting Great Minds . . And Peter and Harriet, as Oxford grads, were the same.  That was part of the charm, part of the complexity of the characters.  That's gone. Gone, too, are the deep philosophical contemplations  and conversations that marked the later books, particularly Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon.  Ms. Walsh is a good writer and storyteller, but she just doesn't have the chops to sustain these two characters' complexity.  I blame modern education for letting us down.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    My favorite Walsh Wimsey book ... so far!
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2016*

I am a long time fan of Dorothy Sayers writing, Lord Peter and Harriet (and Bunter!) and I loved this.  I enjoyed both some of the "back story" as well as the continuation of life and mystery.  Unlike some commenters, I very much liked the pace of the story.  Maybe it is my age (60) and also that I live very quietly and simply in a rural area and working from home and no tv by choice - but I find the contemporary writing with somewhat frenetic (to me) action to be just "noise".  I like slower going, thoughtful stories and characters and that is no doubt part of my particular liking for this book.  I also like how all are aging:  Peter, Harriet, the Bunters, the Wimsey marriage and the children.  I have liked all of Ms. Walsh's Wimsey books, but this is my current favorite and it feels like she has tuned in to Dorothy Sayers' voice.I've recently read several historical fictions books about WWII and post WWII in addition to watching the last 3 Foley's War series which are post WWII.  I feel like an extremely "ugly American" for not knowing before that we (U.S.) were very late to support England and Europe and also am unclear if we were very supportive post war.  This book is 6 years after the war ended and the British are still struggling to get back to "normal".  Also, the fallout to those who fought...in every war before and since...

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Conflicted
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012*

I find myself conflicted in my opinion of this book.  First, as considered solely as a mystery story, it is good; not great -- but there are very few of those -- but certainly good.  A reasonably plausible situation, a clear and plausible back story, no misleading clues, no significant errors -- but also no real spark.It is in dealing with the Wimsey family that I am both pleased and disappointed.  The author does manage to continue the principle characters reasonably well; that is, their actions and reactions are not out of character with the persons created by Dorothy Sayres.  And I will grant you, cheerfully, that doing even that well with Miss Sayres' characters is a remarkable achievement.  I do have a reservation regarding the writing in that regard: Miss Sayres almost never found it necessary to add an adverb (e.g. "brightly", "sharply") to the he said/she said tags on dialogue; her dialogue spoke for itself.  Miss Walsh does add adverbs, all too often -- and often unnecessarily, disturbing the flow.  I am pleased by Miss Walsh's handling of the almost inevitable descent of the Dukedom on Lord Peter, she does, I think, rather well in outlining his reaction, and that of Harriet Vane, to that event.But notice that I used the word "outlining": it is only my opinion -- and not being an author, it is perhaps impertinent of me to even comment on this -- that a great deal more insight could have been added into the reactions of both of them to this event, particularly to the impact that had on the estate.  Miss Walsh gives only a very superficial treatment to the impact of the death of the 16th Duke on the estate itself, and on the reactions of Peter and Harriet that.  There is, indeed, really only one brief passage on this, regarding the fact that "the ancient tenantry will be turned out" and the comment that "yes, and there will not be the future income".  This is, at best, at least in my opinion, a very superficial treatment of one of the most significant changes in English landholding and society in the last 300 years or so, a change which was not always, or perhaps even not often, for the better.  Perhaps worse it treats the change (brought on by the exorbitant death duty set in place by the Labour government of the day) solely from the point of view of the aristocracy -- which narrow view His Grace Duke Peter would never, ever have countenanced, never mind Harriet.  In at least two other books -- "Gaudy Night" and "Busman's Honeymoon" it is very clear Lord Peter, as he then was, was very concenred about the welfare of his tenants -- and indeed this was true of many (but certainly not all) of the real great landed aristocratic families.  It seems to me that a real opportunity was missed here, and that is too bad.

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