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Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body? / Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Gaudy Night
Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels Whose Body / Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Gaudy Night Author:Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body? — 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 pro... more »minent 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 bath.
Clouds of Witnesses
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 Wimsey's own brother, and if murder set all in the family wasn't enough to boggle the unflappable Lord Wimsey, perhaps a few twists of fate would be -- a mysterious vanishing midnight letter from Egypt... a grieving fiancee with suitcase in hand... and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey.
Murder Must Advertise
Murder must advertise, even though that is not a license to kill, or so Lord Peter Wimsey soon discovered. Pym's Publicity, a London ad agency, calls in the engaging young lord after a particularly nasty accident has occurred--Victor Dean has broken his neck falling down the stairs. Before Wimsey uncovers the truth, five people have died, and the ad game has become a deadly one.
Gaudy Night
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, 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; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.« less