Dorothy L Sayers
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Lord Peter Wimsey's sister's fiancé is murdered, and the accused is Lord Peter's brother, the noted detective must come up with the real culprit--before it's too late.
2) Gaudy Night
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
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 the title if he likes arsenic in his soup."
Some of the notes threaten murder and one of them involves a long Latin quotation, which makes Harriet suspect that the perpetrator is probably a member
...3) Whose Body?
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the debut mystery in Dorothy L. Sayers’s acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series, the case of a dead bather draws Lord Peter into the 1st of many puzzling mysteries
Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London’s greatest sleuth—and he’s about to encounter his oddest case yet....
Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London’s greatest sleuth—and he’s about to encounter his oddest case yet....
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Storm-bound over the New Year at a Fenland rectory, Lord Peter Wimsey willingly lends a hand in the ringing of a New Year's Eve peal of the church bells. Some months later, a handless, disfigured corpse is discovered in a fresh grave in the churchyard. Lord Peter receives a plea for help from the rector and embarks on one of his most complicated investigations - for this is not the first crime the village has experienced. Fifteen years ago the Wilbraham...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ninety-year-old General Fentiman has been sitting very quietly all day long in his usual fireside armchair at the Bellona Club, oblivious to the hustle and bustle of Armistice Day celebrations, when a fellow member finally notices that he is a corpse. How long he has been in this condition is not at all clear, but the exact time of his death turns out to matter very much to the potential heirs of his substantial fortune. While attempting to resolve...
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lord Peter and Harriet return to the scene of their literate courtship to resolve an Oxford University dispute that is complicated by the disappearance of several prominent Fellows.
Author
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after visiting East Anglia, Wimsey is stranded there after an auto mishap. When a mutilated body is found on the estate, Wimsey discovers a connection to the jewels that were stolen 20 years before. The full picture eludes him until a natural disaster strikes and the nine church bells that signal death in a country town ring out.
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 1
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 2
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 1
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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...
17) Gaudy night: #3
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Sandy Campbell's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the small town of Kirkcudbright, the local constabularies are convinced that the argumentative painter is a victim of a tragic accident. But when Lord Peter Wimsey turns up, the hunt begins for an ingenious killer. Faced with six men, all of whom have a motive for murder, the aristocratic amateur sleuth must deduce which are the five red herrings and which has blood on his hands.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Beside their nuptial promises, newlywed society sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and crime novelist Harriet Vane makes another vow: no more crime in their lives. Fat chance for that when the lovebirds and faithful butler Bunter arrive at the country cottage they've just purchased to find the overly attentive villagers disrupting their solitude, and the previous owner's body in the basement.