Dorothy Sayers: 64 books

A special edition of the first three classic mysteries featuring British aristocrat and sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals help pass...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories...

“Beyond question one of the most skillful mystery writers . . . offers a first rate piece of work. . . . Lord Peter Wimsey [is] at his amusing best. . . . The book is a treat” (The New York Times). The majestic landscape of the Scottish coast has attracted artists and fishermen for centuries....

Dorothy L. Sayers' scharfsichtiger Gentleman-Detektiv Lord Peter Wimsey gibt sein Debüt. Mr. Thipps staunt nicht schlecht, als er am Morgen sein Badezimmer betritt und in der Wanne den Körper eines toten Mannes vorfindet. Von einem kleinen Zwicker auf der Nase abgesehen, ist der splitterfasernackt....

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names In a Grove [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa] Fantômas [Marcel Allain] The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont [Robert Barr] The Woman in Black [E.C. Bentley] The Island Mystery [George A. Birmingham] Four Max Carrados Detective Stories...

Ein brillanter Krimi und ein zeitloses Gesellschaftsporträt Endlich ist es so weit: Amateurdetektiv Lord Peter Wimsey und Krimiautorin Harriet Vane geben sich in der St.-Cross-Kirche zu Oxford das Jawort! Zurückgezogen in einer abgelegenen romantischen Villa in den Bergen, die Lord Peter kurzerhand...

Lord Peter Wimsey: sechs Verdächtige – fünf falsche Fährten Eigentlich hatte sich Lord Peter Wimsey auf einen geruhsamen Urlaub in schönen schottischen Gefilden gefreut. Er wollte fischen und die gelegentliche Partie Golf spielen. Doch dann wird ein Künstler in der Malerkolonie, in der Lord...

It was a corpse, disfigured and unrecognisable. The sexton found it, and appropriately it was in the churchyard. The Nine Tailors is one of Dorothy Sayers' finest books of detection, featuring her internationally famous detective creation, Lord Peter Wimsey.

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way. Lord Peter Wimsey is first introduced in...

When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the Visitor"—charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet,...

For the first time in one volume: The Devil to Pay was also written for the Canterbury Festival and was based on the Faust legend. The Just Vengeance was written for the Lichfield Cathedral Festival in 1946. The plot involves around an Airman who has been shot down. His spirit returns to his home...

Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that Thipps, an architect hired to do some work on her local church, has just found a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath in his London flat. The official investigator, Inspector Sugg, suspects Thipps and his...

The fiancé of Lord Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, is found dead outside the conservatory of the family's shooting lodge in Yorkshire. Peter and Mary's elder brother, the Duke of Denver, is charged with capital murder and put on trial in the House of Lords. In solving the case Lord Peter is presented with an unusual problem: too many clues.