Publishers Weekly, January 20th, 2003
PW Talks with Jill Paton Walsh
PW: How does your second posthumous collaboration with Dorothy Sayers, A Presumption of Death [see review p. 59], differ from your first?
Jill Paton Walsh: With Thrones, Dominations, I was working in the dark with a plot that had been worked out. In A Presumption of Death, all I had to use were propaganda letters, and so I had a completely free hand with the plot. The characters then became the difficulty, because this time they needed to be moved into a situation which was so different from when we last saw them in her hands.
PW: Which was in 1936?
JPW: Ye...
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