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1) Whose body?
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1
Earliest Publication Date
1923
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Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a friend that Mr Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bath - wearing nothing but a gold prince-nez. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr Thipps, and a good look at the body raises a number...
Volume
2
Earliest Publication Date
1987
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Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver, is being held for the crime. The dead man? Their sister's fiancé. Lord Peter must clear his brother's name to avoid the death penalty. There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence against the Duke, but Lord Peter firmly believes that his brother is innocent and begins his own investigation into...
Volume
3
Earliest Publication Date
1987
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The senseless death of a wealthy old woman brings debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey to the scene of the crime, causing him to search for answers from a beautiful Hampshire village to a fashionable London flat.
Volume
4
Earliest Publication Date
1995
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Counted among the four "Queens of Crime", Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer best known for her upper-class amateur sleuth Peter Wimsey, who first appeared in "Whose Body?", Sayers' 1923 debut novel. Sayers is noted for having advanced the genre of detective fiction past the simple solving of puzzles to stories rich with characterization. This can be seen in this classic collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First collected...
Volume
5
Earliest Publication Date
1995
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A ninety-year-old man's time of death becomes pivotal in deciding upon his half-million-pound estate, and Lord Peter Wimsey must search through such clues as an artificial poppy and an unsolicited telephone repair.
Volume
6
Earliest Publication Date
1958
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When her fiancae dies exactly as described in one of her novels, mystery writer Harriet Vane becomes the prime suspect. Can Lord Peter Wimsey find the real poisoner in time to save her from the gallows? Impossible, it seems. The Crown's case is watertight. The police are adamant. The judge's summing-up is clear: Harriet Vane is guilty. But Lord Peter is determined to find her innocent - as determined as he is to make her his wife.
Volume
7
Earliest Publication Date
1931
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When an artist is found dead at the bottom of a cliff where he had been painting, a masterpiece in mystery arises, with six artists as suspects, five of them "red herrings" and one a murderer who baffles even Lord Peter Wimsey.
Volume
8
Earliest Publication Date
1959
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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 her dear friend Lord Peter Wimsey, she begins to investigate.
Volume
9
Earliest Publication Date
1969
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A trove of short stories featuring 2 of the Jazz Age's most famous sleuths In the annals of mystery writing, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg are among the most memorable detectives. Lord Peter-noble by birth, brilliant by nature-is a fly in the ointment of criminals across Britain, turning up whenever the police ask him to lend his quick wit and keen eye to an investigation. Montague Egg is a free-spirited figure, a traveling wine salesman with...
Volume
10
Earliest Publication Date
1995
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When an ad man dies after an apparent accident, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover as an advertising copywriter and discovers a suspicious set of clues that involve cocaine dealing, blackmail, and wanton women.
11) The nine tailors
Volume
11
Earliest Publication Date
1989
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Lord Peter Wimsey, man about town and amateur sleuth, and his man Bunter, are drawn into a series of intreguing incidents after being stranded in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. What is the identity of the grotesquely disfigured corpse found in the church-yard? Who murdered him and why? Perhaps the Fenchurch bells hold their own answers to the mystery?
12) Gaudy night
Volume
12
Earliest Publication Date
1936
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Harriet Vane's Oxford reunion is shadowed by a rash of bizarre pranks and malicious mischief that include beautifully worded death threats, burnt effigies, and vicious poison-pen letters, and Harriet finds herself and Lord Peter Wimsey challenged by an elusive set of clues.
13) Striding folly
Volume
15
Earliest Publication Date
2002
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Three perplexing puzzles—and three inimitable Wimsey solutions—told with wit, humor, and suspense. Narrator Ian Carmichael, the quintessential Lord Peter, provides great entertainment with his talented performance of these three stories. In "Striding Folly," a frightening dream provides a haunting premonition. A house numbered thirteen is in a street of even numbers, and a dead man was never alive in "The Haunted Policeman." And "Talboys"
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