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Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates

Selected Short Stories

Dorothy L Sayers author David Stuart Davies editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:6th Sep '18

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The very best of Dorothy L. Sayer’s Lord Peter Wimsey Short Stories in one volume.

The very best of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey short stories in one volume, edited and introduced by crime writer David Stuart Davies.

Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of the golden age of crime. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates is introduced and edited by crime writer David Stuart Davies.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

The fifteen short stories in this lively and witty collection, Dorothy L. Sayers’s very best, celebrate the breadth of Peter Wimsey’s career as London’s most celebrated amateur sleuth. From the foppish man about town of 'In the Teeth of the Evidence', to the happily married man in 'The Haunted Policeman', to the father of three in 'Talboys', Wimsey kept that twinkle in his eye and the brilliance of mind that helped him spot a clue a mile off.

Be warned . . . once you make friends with Wimsey you'll want to get better acquainted -- Christopher Fowler
Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers working between the wars, Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all. Certainly her plots are ingenious and intricate, and she relishes technical detail and literary quotation * Guardian *
After 60-odd years still compulsively readable * Independent *
The books chronicling Wimsey’s adventures remain models of their kind -- Barry Forshaw
In time of dire and immediate trouble, one might well call upon a Sherlock Holmes for a quick solution to one’s trials. But for the balm that reassures one about surviving the vicissitudes of life, one could do no better than to anchor onto a Lord Peter Wimsey -- Elizabeth George

ISBN: 9781509868643

Dimensions: 157mm x 104mm x 22mm

Weight: 232g

416 pages