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1) Whose body?
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 1
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In his first murder case, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the bizarre case of a corpse in the bathtub.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 3
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When a terminally ill woman dies much earlier than expected, Lord Peter Wimsey suspects murder: “First-rate detection” (The Cincinnati Enquirer).
Though never quick-witted, Agatha Dawson had an iron constitution and a will to fight that never abated in her old age. Even after three operations failed to rid her of her cancer, she refused to give in. But as her body began to weaken, she accused lawyers, nurses,...
Though never quick-witted, Agatha Dawson had an iron constitution and a will to fight that never abated in her old age. Even after three operations failed to rid her of her cancer, she refused to give in. But as her body began to weaken, she accused lawyers, nurses,...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
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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.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
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©1937
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Lord Peter and his mystery-writer bride, Harriet Vane, are forced to postpone their relaxing country honeymoon when they find a startling surprise in the cellar of their new estate: a corpse.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 14
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c2010
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This mystery finds Lord Peter Wimsey revisiting his first case from thirty years earlier when the descendant of Lord Attenbury begs his help in proving the ownership of a priceless cache of emeralds.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 12
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1998
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Presents a manuscript started by Dorothy Sayers in 1936 and completed in her voice by Jill Paton Walsh, in which the lives of Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet take a dangerous turn when they become involved with the Harwells, a wealthy couple they meet while vacationing in Paris.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 9
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[1989], c1934
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When the parish church bells toll out the death of an unknown man, Lord Peter investigates the sinister affair.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 5
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©1958
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Mystery writer Harriet Vane, on trial for the murder of her lover, attracts the attention of gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who finds himself oddly attracted to this very intelligent but not so beautiful writer, but before he can expect to win any return to his feelings he must prove her innocence.
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[2002]
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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...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 15
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[2014]
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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.
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c2010
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It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The disappearance and subsequent recovery of the king-stone emerald in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom collection made headlines--and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord...