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A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L. Sayers; Jill Paton Walsh
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, "Thrones Dominations," Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the "San Francisco Chronicle"; "you cannot t ...Show more
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers
$21.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private a ...Show more
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
$21.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket and was Lord Peter's brother-in-law-to-be. His accused murderer was Wimse ...Show more
Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane by Dorothy L Sayers
$14.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Vane
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 note ...Show more
Gaudy Night: Lord Peter Wimsey (Lord Peter Wimsey #12) by Dorothy L. Sayers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
The twelfth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by actress Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her sca ...Show more
Lord Peter Views the Body : (Lord Peter Wimsey #5) by Dorothy L. Sayers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Ser.
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outsanding collection. He deals with such marvels as t ...Show more
Lord Peter Wimsey: The Complete Short Stories by Sayers Dorothy L
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Discover Dorothy L. Sayers' inimitable Golden Age detective in this newly published collection of the complete Lord Peter Wimsey stories. Presented in chronological order, these short stories see Lord Peter Wimsey bringing his trademark wit and unique detection skills to all manner of mysteries. From p ...Show more
The Nine Tailors (#11 Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Ser.
When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story ...Show more
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club : (Lord Peter Wimsey #4) by Dorothy L. Sayers
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Ser.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey General Fentiman can be found every day at his club, settled with a newspaper in his favorite chair. So it comes as a shock when another member notices that the general isn't sleeping at all-he is dead. The dignified ca ...Show more
Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers; Jill Paton Walsh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Sorcha Editor d l Sayers Ser.
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers --considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age--abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commission ...Show more
Trent's Last Case (Philip Trent, Book 1) by E. C. Bentley; John Curran (Introduction by); Dorothy L. Sayers (Afterword by)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Philip Trent Ser.
Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day, Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong.Trent's Las ...Show more
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
$21.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries
The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of "amour" -- staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey."Here the modern detective story beg ...Show more