Lord Peter
One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy 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 sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as...
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One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy 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 sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as the next.Now in single volume, here are all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, a treasure for any mystery lover. From "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag" to "The Image in the Mirror" and "Talboys," this collection is Lord Peter at his best -- and a true testament to the art of detective fiction.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060913809 (0060913800)
ASIN: 60913800
Publish date: October 22nd 1986
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 487
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
20th Century,
Anthologies,
Mystery,
Detective,
Collections,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Short Stories
Series: Lord Peter Wimsey , 2, 10, 12
This is an old favorite that I go back to every year or so.
This compilation of the short stories Sayers wrote throughout the years starring Lord Peter is fun, witty, varied and fabulous. Not one bad story in the lot. Yes some have a more thief/murderer to catch feel but most of them are delightful and give an insight to the character of Lord Peter in many d...
I picked this up a year or so ago and *hated* the first story I read, which I thought priggishly class conscious. After reading the Wimsey novels, I liked the stories a great deal more, and would recommend them only after a reader has read at least one or two of Sayers's novels.
Read these AFTER reading at least the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel. My review when I first read them was this: "I read about a third of these, but couldn't bear to slog through the rest. Several authors I love (cough, copperbadge) have mentioned Sayers, and I'm a sucker for urbane fops who are sec...
[These notes were made in 1981:]. A collection of all the Wimsey short stories, from the earliest 1920s manifestations to the charming little post-Harriet tales. The later ones I recognized from collections I've read already, but the earlier stories were quite new - mostly of the intellectual puzzl...
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