Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
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1) Whose Body?
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 1
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English
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After a corpse wearing pince-nez glasses is found in a bathtub, Lord Peter Wimsey undertakes the case and investigates the deed privately. But determining whether the corpse belongs to a well-known banker or a group of mischief-making medical students is just the beginning of this tangled mystery plot. This atmospheric novel put Dorothy L. Sayers in the ranks with Agatha Christie as a mystery writer nonpareil.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 2
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English
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As Lord Peter Wimsey enjoys his time in Corsica, he's brought back to reality when all of the headlines claim that his brother, Gerald, has been arrested for murder. Gerald, who had been on a hunting trip at the family's estate in Yorkshire with his brother-in-law, had gotten into a fight with the man about his sordid past. Hours later, the man is dead, and Gerald is the main suspect. As Gerald maintains his innocence, it's up to Wimsey to figure...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 3
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English
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The third story from the mistress of the Golden Age mystery to feature the brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey When a wealthy woman comes to her untimely demise, Lord Peter Wimsey dives into the case, despite his lack of evidence or suspects. Just as Wimsey is getting familiar with the case, the woman's maid becomes the next victim. With two victims and no suspects, Wimsey is at his wit's end trying to prevent the next murder from happening. As senseless...
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The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club , Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 4
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Strong poison , Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 5
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[2002]
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English
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In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across 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...
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Murder must advertise , Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 8
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
[1980]
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English
Appears on list
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Bell strokes toll out the death of an unknown man, and summon Lord Wimsey to East Anglia to solve the mystery.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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In the process of discussing with her husband the plot of her latest novel, mystery writer Lady Wimsey finds the solution to a real-life murder. The novel is an unfinished 1930s manuscript by British writer Sayers, completed by Walsh on the basis of the outline.
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A presumption of death , Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 13
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This mystery finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from thirty years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
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English
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Lord Peter Wimsey, now the Duke of Denver, receives a summons to St. Severin's College in Oxford. It seems that, along with his new title, he also inherited the position of Visitor at St. Severin's, a mediator who is called upon to settle disputes among the Fellows of the college when voting on an issue is unresolved. St. Severin's possesses a priceless book alleged to have belonged to Alfred the Great. One faction of the Fellows wants to sell the...
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Lord Peter
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Striding folly: including three final Lord Peter Wimsey stories
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In the teeth of the evidence
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Hangman's holiday
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Lord Peter views the body
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