Editing Thrones, Dominations (section)

==Reception==
The book attracted considerable media interest, and met with mixed reviews from a variety of high-profile critics. Novelist [[Ruth Rendell]], writing in the ''[[Sunday Times]]'', declared it "...impossible to tell where Dorothy L. Sayers ends and Jill Paton Walsh begins".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/thronesdominations |title=Thrones, Dominations at us.macmillan.com |access-date=2008-09-23}}</ref>

[[A. N. Wilson]] agreed that the joins in the material appeared "seamless" to the amateur reader, but found the plot in the main "rather feeble";<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article775899.ece |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505091735/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article775899.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=The Wimsey-Vane cocktail |last=Wilson |first=A. N. |date=30 January 1998 |work=The Times |access-date=2008-09-24 }}</ref> he noted Paton Walsh's attempt to parody Sayers' style, "...the really corking snobbery, the [[P. G. Wodehouse|sub-Wodehousian]] banter, and the conceited swapping of obvious quotations", but judged it a failure.<ref name="Wilson"/>

[[Joyce Carol Oates]] in the ''[[New York Times]]'' called the book "engrossing, intelligent and provocative",<ref name="oates">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/reviews/980315.15oatest.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=thrones%20dominations&st=cse&oref=slogin |title=Lord Peter's Last Case |last=Oates |first=Joyce Carol |date=15 March 1998 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2008-09-24}}</ref> praised the power of its descriptive passages, and found its darker tone more in keeping with the later Wimsey novels than with the "zest and flashy originality" of the earlier ones.<ref name="oates"/>

Reviewer [[Barbara Fowler]] noted that <blockquote>"The original Wimsey books were contemporary novels, reflecting social and political situations and outlooks at the time of writing. The present book, except for its beginning, is a historical novel – specifically, a [[Historical whodunnit|historical detective book]] – carefully reconstructing a historical past time with a lot of hindsight. ... King [[Edward VIII]] is seen here from a clearly post-WWII perspective, with a reference made to his meeting Nazi agents and with Wimsey flatly stating that he is not fit to be King. It is extremely unlikely that Sayers, had she completed the book at the time itself, would have written anything of the kind, or that her publishers would have risked scandal by unleashing such a book upon the British public; at the time, it often happened that British papers delicately avoided altogether any mention of the mess in which their King was becoming involved".<ref>Barbara D. Fowler, "That strange creature, historical detective fiction", ch. 2, 3.</ref></blockquote>