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Thrones, dominations
by Dorothy L Sayers
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22 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,642 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In the process of discussing with her husband the plot of her latest novel, mystery writer Lady Wimsey finds the solution to a real-life murder. The novel is an unfinished 1930s manuscript by British writer Sayers, completed by Walsh on the basis of the outline
A presumption of death
by Jill Paton Walsh
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23 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,086 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl
The Attenbury emeralds : a new Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mystery
by Jill Paton Walsh
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17 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 1,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This mystery finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from thirty years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds
The green book
by Jill Paton Walsh
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16 editions published between 1981 and 2012 in English and held by 1,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from Earth struggles to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities
Knowledge of angels
by Jill Paton Walsh
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41 editions published between 1993 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in medieval Europe, this is the story of agirl who was abandoned as a baby and was raised bywolves. Found by shepherds, she is sent to a convent tolearn to speak and walk upright. There, she becomes theobject of an experiment to determine whether knowledgeof God is innate or revealed
A desert in Bohemia
by Jill Paton Walsh
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23 editions published between 2000 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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
Fireweed
by Jill Paton Walsh
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33 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and French and held by 1,327 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Two teen-age runaways who refuse to be evacuated from London struggle to survive the blitz of 1940
Gaffer Samson's luck
by Jill Paton Walsh
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13 editions published between 1984 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,147 WorldCat member libraries worldwide James's difficulty in adjusting to a new school and life in the Fens is further complicated by the request of an elderly neighbour to find his lucky piece, a task which puts James in some danger
A parcel of patterns
by Jill Paton Walsh
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20 editions published between 1886 and 1999 in English and held by 1,146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mall Percival tells how the plague came to her Derbyshire village of Eyam in the year 1665, how the villagers determined to isolate themselves to prevent further spread of the disease, and how three-fourths of them died before the end of the following year
Grace
by Jill Paton Walsh
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7 editions published between 1991 and 1994 in English and held by 1,115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national hero
A piece of justice : an Imogen Quy mystery
by Jill Paton Walsh
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19 editions published between 1976 and 2006 in English and Spanish and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Cambridge, England, three writers undertake to write a mathematician's biography and each in turn comes to an untimely end. To find out why, PI Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, travels to Wales, to discover genius, jealousy and murder
Debts of dishonor : an Imogen Quy mystery
by Jill Paton Walsh
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12 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 1,079 WorldCat member libraries worldwide With her college near bankruptcy and her former lover a suspect in a double murder, Imogen Quy, a nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, launches her own investigation into the suspicious deaths of a billionaire and his unpleasant son-in-law
The Wyndham case
by Jill Paton Walsh
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17 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in English and Italian and held by 1,067 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Everyone agrees that Philip Skellow fell to his death while robbing the Wyndham Case, an eccentric library with an even more eccentric legacy attached--everyone by Nurse Imogen Quy
The bad quarto : an Imogen Quy mystery
by Jill Paton Walsh
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10 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide 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
When Grandma came
by Jill Paton Walsh
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7 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and French and held by 1,033 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Although Grandma has seen many wonderful sights around the world, none compare to the wonder of her bouncy, growing, "heaven-and-earthly" granddaughter Madeleine
The serpentine cave
by Jill Paton Walsh
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13 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 1,014 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After her mother dies, a middle-aged Englishwoman tries to learn about her father, a secret the mother kept from her. The search takes her to a fishing port and artists' colony in Cornwall where she learns of her father's involvement in a lifeboat disaster
A chance child
by Jill Paton Walsh
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11 editions published between 1978 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,009 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier
Birdy and the ghosties
by Jill Paton Walsh
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12 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 997 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young Scottish girl has little use for her gift of second sight until the day the ghosties came
Unleaving
by Jill Paton Walsh
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14 editions published between 1976 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The recent heir to her grandmother's house, a young girl rents it for the summer to a professor and a group of students whose long, abstract, philosophical discussions become meaningful to her as the summer wears on
Goldengrove
by Jill Paton Walsh
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10 editions published between 1972 and 1990 in English and held by 749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Expecting the usual carefree and happy summer with her cousin Paul at their grandmother's seaside home, Madge finds this summer to be different from all the others more
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Bliss, Gillian, 1937-
Paton Walsh, Gillian
Paton Walsh, Gillian, 1937-
Paton Walsh, Jill
Paton Walsh, Jill, 1937-
Walsh, Jill Paton.
Walsh, Jill Paton, 1937-
ウォルシュ, ジル ペイトン
ペイトン ウォルシュ, ジル
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