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Dorothy L. Sayers
Full Series List in Order
A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
1 - Whose Body? (1923)2 - The Clouds of Witness (1926)
3 - Unnatural Death (1927)
4 - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
5 - Lord Peter Views the Body (1929)
6 - Strong Poison (1930)
7 - The Documents in the Case (1930)
8 - The Five Red Herrings (1931)
9 - Have His Carcase (1932)
10 - Murder Must Advertise (1933)
11 - Hangman's Holiday (1933)
12 - The Nine Tailors (1934)
13 - Gaudy Night (1935)
14 - Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
15 - In the Teeth of the Evidence: And Other Mysteries (1939)
16 - Striding Folly (1972)
17 - Lord Peter (1972)
Book List in Order: 27 titles
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Whose Body?
- 1923
- / Amateur Sleuth
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WHOSE BODY? Indeed, it was difficult to say. There was a prominent London financier re-ported missing, but something was wrong with this body--it was not the kind of body a financier would have. Arrests already had been made, but they were without su...
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The Clouds of Witness
- 1926
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt--until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket, and was Lord Peter's...
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Unnatural Death
- 1927
- / Amateur Sleuth
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"THIS IS THE CASE I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LOOKING FOR. THE CASE OF CASES. THE MURDER WITHOUT DISCERNIBLE MEANS, OR MOTIVE OR CLUE." The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led ...
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
- 1928
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to investigate the seemingly unsuspicious death of ninety-year-old General Fentiman, found in full rigor mortis in an armchair at the Bellona Club on Armistice Day. Wimsey, a fellow Bellona Club member, is tasked with deter...
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A Matter of Taste
- 1928
- / Mystery
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THE BUTLER DIDN'T DO IT So whodunit? Find out in this quintessential collection of cozies...the creme de la creme of mysteries whose wit, clever clues, and urbanity are the preferred taste of discriminating readers. Michael Innes presents a case of ...
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Lord Peter Views the Body
- 1929
- / Amateur Sleuth
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LORD PETER VIEWS`THE BODY in twelve tantalizing and bizarre ways. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the footsteps that ran, the stolen stomach, and the man without a face. An...
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The Documents in the Case
- 1930
- / Amateur Sleuth
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THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. Yet they concealed a clue' to the brilliant murderer who baffled the best minds in London, and might have outfoxed LORD PETER WIMSEY as well....
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Strong Poison
- 1930
- / Amateur Sleuth
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STRONG POISON can cause death, and it did. Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in a manner prescribed in one of her books, there was only one person to whom the bony finger of suspicion could point....
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The Five Red Herrings
- 1931
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident? Or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death ... five were red herrings. Set in t...
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Have His Carcase
- 1932
- / Amateur Sleuth
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HAVE HIS CARCASE if you would; Harriet Vanes wouldn't. Being a detective writer, she did not care to become involved with the body on the" beach, even though she was escaping an unhappy love affair. But from the moment she photographed the corpse, wh...
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Hangman's Holiday
- 1933
- / Amateur Sleuth
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HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY is hardly a day for celebration. But what is cause for celebration is the first paperback appearance of these classic - Sayers tales. Amusing and absolutely appalling things happened on the way to the gallows when murder meets LORD ...
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Murder Must Advertise
- 1933
- / Amateur Sleuth
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When ad man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copywriting than meets the...
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The Nine Tailors
- 1934
- / Amateur Sleuth
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The Nine Tailors is Dorothy L. Sayers's finest mystery, featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and a classic of the genre.
The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man an...
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Gaudy Night
- 1935
- / Amateur Sleuth
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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 obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with th...
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Busman's Honeymoon
- 1937
- / Amateur Sleuth
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BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON or busman's breakdown? A murder was hardly the best way for LORD PETER WIMSEY and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to enter into the state of wedlock. It began when a man was found dead in the cellar. Harriet said...
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In the Teeth of the Evidence: And Other Mysteries
- 1939
- / Amateur Sleuth
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IN THE TEETH OF THE EVIDENCE, and in the eyes of the police, the corpse in the car has that just-murdered look. LORD PETER WIMSEY and a company of wily amateurs solve a series of murders unprecedented in the annals of the weird, the puzzling, and the...
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The Cyprian Cat
- 1940
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Cats and crime make an irresistible combination in this second volume of Mystery Cats. Bestselling author Lilian Jackson Braun uses her favorite breed, the Siamese, to chill us with a tale of a sinister violin-playing villain who gets his comeuppance...
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Lord Peter
- 1972
- / Amateur Sleuth
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One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sl...
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Striding Folly
- 1972
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie''s Poirot and Margery Allingham''s Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers.
Three of Lord Peter Wimsey''s most baffling cases demonstrate his uni...
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The Necklace of Pearls
- 1972
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...
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The Mind of the Maker
- Oct-1987
- / General Fiction
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This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing mediation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the...
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The Man Who Knew How
- Jul-2005
- / Suspense
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“An absolutely first-rate anthology. . . a thoughtful and intelligent paean to crime fiction.” — New York Sun
#1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George serves up a century''s worth of superb crim...
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The Haunted Policeman
- Jun-2020
- / Mystery
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The story of the poor policeman who saw a house numbered thirteen where no thirteen ought to be and a murdered man where no one has been murdered. Lord Peter helps him prove that he wasn't drunk nor delusional....
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