Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that Thipps, an architect hired to do some work on her local church, has just found a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath in his London flat. The official investigator, Inspector Sugg, suspects Thipps and his servant; Wimsey starts his own enquiry. Sir Reuben Levy, a famous financier, has disappeared from his own bedroom, and there has been a flurry of trading in some Peruvian oil shares. Inspector ...

First published in 1933, Murder Must Advertise is the tenth book in Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey series. In this book, Wimsey accepts an offer from the highly respectable management of Pym's Publicity, Ltd. (a light disguise for S. H. Bensons, where Sayers worked) to investigate a mystery and avert a scandal. Copywriter Victor Dean has died in a fall down the spiral iron office staircase, but he left a half-finished letter to the management hinting that something potentially scandalou...

A four-month New York Times bestseller: This classic gay love story is as gripping and sexy today as when it was first published.Charlie Mills always played the role of the good grandson, and his grandmother rewarded him for it handsomely in the form of all the gifts, money, and attention a boy could want. Entering college in the late 1930s, Charlie just has to keep doing what his grandmother expects of him in order to continue to receive her gifts. He has...

LA GRAN DAMA DE LA EDAD DE ORO DE LA NOVELA NEGRA INGLESA«Una cumbre del género, una mujer de singular inteligencia y cultura, un detective magnífico y uno de esos relatos clásicos, sí que te hacen añorar los felices fines de semana junto a un libro».José María Guelbenzu, El PaísParece un día cualquiera en el Bellona Club, frecuentado por lord Peter Wimsey, segundo hijo del duque de Denver, bibliófilo, dandy, seductor profes...

Having returned to Paris from an extended holiday in Corsica, Lord Peter Wimsey receives news that his sister Mary's fiancé, Captain Denis Cathcart, has been found shot dead outside the Wimseys' shooting lodge at Riddlesdale in Yorkshire. His brother, Gerald, Duke of Denver, has been arrested for the murder. Cathcart was killed by a bullet from Denver's revolver, and Denver's only alibi is that he was out for a walk at the time Cathcart died. Lord Peter investigates!

Published in 1927, Unnatural Death is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series.Wimsey and Charles Parker are interrupted, while in a teashop, by a doctor who overhears them talking about crime. He relates a tale of how he was treating an elderly lady for cancer, whose niece insisted was much nearer than death than he felt she was. When she died suddenly, without leaving a will, the doctor insisted on an autopsy, leading to bad feeling with both the niece, Miss Whittaker, and ...

Entre El Club del Crimen de los Jueves y Agatha Christie: Dorothy L. Sayers, la reina del cosy crime«Una cumbre del género, una mujer de singular inteligencia y cultura, un detective magnífico y uno de esos relatos —clásicos, sí— que te hacen añorar los felices fines de semana junto a un libro.»J...

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder — especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What’s more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in ...

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS'Dorothy L. Sayers is one of our best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph'One of crime fiction's most memorable detectives' The New York Times'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit' P. D. James_____________________________________________________________________

The story is set in Galloway, a part of Scotland popular with artists because of its landscapes. Sandy Campbell is a talented painter, but also a notoriously quarrelsome drunkard. When he is found dead in a stream, with a half-finished painting on the bank above, it is assumed at first that he fell in accidentally, fracturing his skull. Lord Peter Wimsey, who is in the region on a fishing holiday, points out the inconsistency which makes it impossible for Campbell himself to have worked on...

Lord Peter Wimsey undertakes an investigation into the death of an elderly woman who had succumbed to cancer three years earlier, and whose death profoundly affected the medical career of the doctor who had been entrusted with her care.Putting his associate, the indomitable Miss Climpson, to work undercover in the victim’s home town, Lord Peter leaves no stone unturned in his search for a person with the motive and the opportunity to commit murder.HarperPerennial Classics b...

A collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg, and others.Includes stories such as "Absolutely Everywhere," "Bitter Almonds", and "The Leopard Lady."Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.