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 she 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 gave up writing detective fiction. 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. I'm sorry to hear of her death.