Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh died recently, at the age of 83. She was a well known novelist, and also wrote several detective stories. She was chosen by the Sayers estate to write continuations of the Peter Wimsey novels and published four. The first was a continuation of Sayers' unfinished novel Thrones Dominations which is set soon after Peter's marriage to Harriet. Sayers only wrote a few chapters, and dropped the work and finally left off writing detective fiction to concentrate on plays. Walsh wrote a reasonably good mystery novel.. and wrote three more.. set during and after World War II. She also wrote 4 light detective stories, set in Cambridge with an amateur detective who is a nurse at St Agatha's college, Imogen Quy. She started to write in her mid 20s, having been a teacher for a time.. When she was at home with her first baby, she began to write fiction. Im sorry to hear of her death.