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The elegant and urbane Lord Peter Wimsey rare book expert stunning cricketer wellknown London and Paris bon vivant shows his true essence master detective in these four absorbing Dorothy L Sayers novels
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Whose BodyThe stark naked body was lying in the tubNot unusual for a proper bath but highly irregular for murder especially with a pair of gold pincenez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes Whats more the face appeared to have been shaved after death The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier but Lord Peter Wimsey who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby knew better In this his first murder case Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath Murder Must AdvertiseWhen advertising executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the stairs at Pyms Publicity Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to investigate It seems that before he died Dean had begun a letter to Mr Pym suggesting some very unethical dealings at the posh London ad agency Wimsey goes undercover and discovers that Dean was part of the fast crowd at Pyms a group taken to partying and doing drugs Wimsey and his brotherinlaw ChiefInspector Parker rush to discover who is running Londons cocaine trade and how Pyms fits into the pictureall before Wimseys cover is blown Gaudy NightWhen Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion known as the Gaudy the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks scrawled obsentities burnt effigies and poisonpen letters including one that says Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soupSome of the notes threaten murder all are perfectly ghastly yet in spite of their scurrilous nature all are perfectly worded And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection and those of her paramour Lord Peter Wimsey
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Review A model detective story fascinating New York Times The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries Chicago Tribune The end of this story is as ingenious as any solution could be Times Literary Supplement Product Description Strong Poison Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons and when her fiance died in the manner prescribed in one of her books a jury of her peers had a hangmans noose in mind But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocentas determined as he was to make her his wife HaveHisCaracase The mystery writer Harriet Vane recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath seeks solace on a barren beach deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut From the moment she photographs the corpse which soon disappears with the tide she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide murder or a political plot With the appearance of her dear friend Lord Peter Wimsey she finds a reason for detective pursuit as only the two of them can pursue it Unnatural Death The wealthy old woman was dead a trifle sooner than expected The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of amour staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey Here the modern detective story begins to come to its own and all the historical importance aside it remains an absorbing and charming story today
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When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion known as the Gaudy the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks scrawled obsentities burnt effigies and poisonpen letters including one that says Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soupSome of the notes threaten murder all are perfectly ghastly yet in spite of their scurrilous nature all are perfectly worded And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection and those of her paramour Lord Peter Wimsey
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While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission Harriet Vane now Lady Peter Wimsey takes their children to safety in the country But theres no escape from war rumors of spies abound glamorous RAF pilots and flirtatious landgirls scandalize the villagers and the blackout makes rural lanes as sinister as Londons alleys And when a practice airraid ends with a young womans death its almost a shock to hear that the cause is not enemy action but murder Or is it With Peter away Harriet sets out to find out whodunitand the chilling reason why
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In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits Dorothy L Sayers reveals a gruesome grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peters fulllength adventuresLord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outsanding collection He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers Uncle Meleagers missing will the cat in the bag the foosteps that ran the stolen stomach the man without a faceand with such clues as cyanide jewels a roast chicken and a classic crossword puzzle
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A digital copy of Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two by Sayers Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Explains terms phrases quotations allusions and references in the Wimsey novels and short stories shows important settings and landmarks and identifies major characters
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Includes Haunted Policeman Striding Folly Talboys Lord Peter Wimseys last three baffling cases all demonstrate his unique detection skills at their most spectacular The enigma of a house numbered thirteen in a street of even numbers an indignant child accused of theft a dream about a game of chess that uncovers the true story behind a violent death Each of the stories introduces a different side of the twentieth centurys most ingenious detective hero
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A mustread for fans of Agatha Christies Poirot and Margery Allinghams Campion Mysteries Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey bent down over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the gnarled old hands Then with a quick jerk he lifted the quiet figure It came up all of a piece stiff as a wooden doll But how did the general die Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for questioning And which of the generals heirs both members of the Bellona Club is lying
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In 1936 Dorothy L Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story Sixty years later a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agents safe in London and awardwinning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it The result of the pairing of Dorothy L Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones Dominations Now following A Presumption of Death set during World War II comes a new Sayersinspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his very first case It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenburys dazzling heirloom collection made headlinesand launched a shellshocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective Thirty years later a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife the detective novelist Harriet Vane Suddenly the new Lord Attenburygrandson of Lord Peters first clientseeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds As Harriet and Peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on English societyand Peter who always cherished the liberties of a younger son faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the Duke of Denver after allJill Paton Walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time
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A young doctors suspicions about Agatha Dawsons supposedly natural death lead Lord Wimsey into an unusual investigation
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Lord Peter Wimsey becomes fascinated when bohemian Harriet Vane is accused of murdering her lover He investigates further and finds himself falling in love with her as he visits her in prison and watches her in court But can he save her from the gallows
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From her first book of poetry to her incomplete translation of the Paradiso of Dante Dorothy L Sayers was responsible for hundreds of publications Novels short stories poems plays translations essays and articles of many kinds book reviews speeches and radio broadcasts reveal a writer who took her work seriously and managed to earn her living with her pen Not all of her immense output is easily accessible today While her fiction has remained more or less continuously in print much of her other work has been more difficult to find and some speeches essays and articles have never been reprinted at all This collection of work by Sayers presented in chronological order covers most of her adult life from the lighthearted meditations of a young woman who still has not found her place in the world to the serious and highly pragmatic opinions of an experienced playwright eager to share what she has learned with others They cover a wide range of subjects not only God Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey but also Oxford drama love the press the Church and the devil among others One text the radio broadcast The over30 Association has never been published before
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When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion known as the Gaudy the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks scrawled obsentities burnt effigies and poisonpen letters including one that says Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup Some of the notes threaten murder all are perfectly ghastly yet in spite of their scurrilous nature all are perfectly worded And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection and those of her paramour Lord Peter Wimsey
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A digital copy of Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three by Sayers Download is immediately available upon purchase
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The body was on the pointed rocks alongside the stream The artist might have fallen from the cliff where he was painting but there were too many suspicious elementsparticularly the medical evidence that proved hed been dead nearly half a day though eyewitnesses saw him alive a scant hour earlier And then there were the six prime suspectsall of them artists all of them wished him dead Five were red herrings but one had created a masterpiece of murder that baffled everyone including Lord Peter Wimsey
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The mystery writer Harriet Vane recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath seeks solace on a barren beach deserted but for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cutFrom the moment she photographs the corpse which soon disappears with the tide she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide murder or a political plot With the appearance of her dear friend Lord Peter Wimsey she finds a reason for detective pursuit as only the two of them can pursue it
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Contents Introduction by James Sandoe Twelve stories from Lord Peter Views the Body 1928 The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleagers Will The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste The Learned Adventure of the Dragons Head The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba Four stories from Hangmans Holiday 1933 The Image in the Mirror The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey The Queens Square The Necklace of Pearls Two stories from In the Teeth of the Evidence 1939 In the Teeth of the Evidence Absolutely Elsewhere Three later stories not included in other compilations Striding Folly The Haunted Policeman Talboys Coda Sayers Lord Peter and God by Carolyn Heilbrun Codetta Greedy Night A Parody by E C Bentley
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Tale of suspense in which the famous Lord Peter Wimsey is called upon to solve the murder of an unknown man in East Anglia
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