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Title: The Attenbury Emeralds

Subtitle: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

Author: Jill Paton Walsh

Narrator: Edward Petherbridge

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-03-16

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's most dazzling heirloom made headlines - and launched a 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 young Lord Attenbury - 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....

Members Reviews:

True to characters if not to language and discretion.

I am usually wary of books/characters 'taken-on' by other writers after the author's death. However I believe this stays true to the characters Sayers created.

This is a good effort by Jill Paton Walsh but some modern language starts creeping in. More so I think than is justified even in the post war era in which it is set.

The increased use of mild bad language and more blatant talk adulterous affairs, drugs and prostitution somewhat spoils the 'safe' feel of Dorothy L Sayers' original books

But the. characters are kept to very faithfully. And do nothing that is unbelievable for what has already been written about them.

The reader is perfect and I believe he actually played Lord Peter in a number of screen adaptations of Sayer's later books.

A Jewel

This is my first audio book and the reason I took this version as well as the kindle version is the narration by Edward Petherbridge whose performance in the tv adaptations of Peter Wimsey cases I have greatly enjoyed , so it is a pleasure to hear his superb rendition of another tale , more please

Not Dorothy Sayers but Well Done Edward Petherbrid

Would you consider the audio edition of The Attenbury Emeralds to be better than the print version?

I didn't read the print version

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Reasonably appropriate end to the mystery. A few giant signs going along but a good effort

Which character as performed by Edward Petherbridge was your favourite?

Edward Petherbridge does a great Lord Peter. I think he gets the timbre correct so it feels right.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Obviously, there was a big moment.

Any additional comments?

Compared to the horrible woman who was commissioned to read the original books and who can neither pronounce any appropriately nor give any sense to the glories of the stories, Edward Petherbridge is great to listen to and does the best he can with a book which will never be as good as its progenitors. Why not just make up your own characters and start again dear author?

not Ian Carmichael and not Dorothy Sayers but

maybe I'm being unfair. Enjoyed it the more I listened. Just used to the "original".

Like the curate's egg.

As to be expected this was a very complicated plot but was well worth continuing with. Lovely to meet their children. Narration rather slow in places.