Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
416
Utgivningsdatum
2018-09-06
Upplaga
Main Market Ed.
Förlag
Macmillan Collector's Library
Medarbetare
Davies, David Stuart (introd.)
Dimensioner
155 x 105 x 24 mm
Vikt
240 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781509868643

Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates

Selected Short Stories

av Dorothy L Sayers
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-09-06
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Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of the golden age of crime. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates is introduced and edited by crime writer David Stuart Davies. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The fifteen short stories in this lively and witty collection, Dorothy L. Sayerss very best, celebrate the breadth of Peter Wimseys career as Londons most celebrated amateur sleuth. From the foppish man about town of 'In the Teeth of the Evidence', to the happily married man in 'The Haunted Policeman', to the father of three in 'Talboys', Wimsey kept that twinkle in his eye and the brilliance of mind that helped him spot a clue a mile off.
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Be warned . . . once you make friends with Wimsey you'll want to get better acquainted -- Christopher Fowler Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers working between the wars, Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all. Certainly her plots are ingenious and intricate, and she relishes technical detail and literary quotation * Guardian * After 60-odd years still compulsively readable * Independent * The books chronicling Wimseys adventures remain models of their kind -- Barry Forshaw In time of dire and immediate trouble, one might well call upon a Sherlock Holmes for a quick solution to ones trials. But for the balm that reassures one about surviving the vicissitudes of life, one could do no better than to anchor onto a Lord Peter Wimsey -- Elizabeth George

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, the only child of the Rev. Henry Sayers. She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, and in 1915 she finished her modern languages course with first-class honours. After university she worked in a publishers office before joining an advertising firm, S. H. Benson, where she coined the famous slogan: Guinness is good for you. In 1923 she published her first novel, Whose Body?, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories. She also wrote plays and essays, and she considered her best work to be her translation of Dantes Divine Comedy. She died in 1957.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction - i: Introduction by David Stuart Davies Chapter - 1: The Necklace of Pearls Chapter - 2: The Queens Square Chapter - 3: The Image in the Mirror Chapter - 4: In the Teeth of the Evidence Chapter - 5: The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question Chapter - 6: Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey Chapter - 7: The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleagers Will Chapter - 8: The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker Chapter - 9: The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention Chapter - 10: The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face Chapter - 11: The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran Chapter - 12: Absolutely Elsewhere Chapter - 13: Striding Folly Chapter - 14: The Haunted Policeman Chapter - 15: Talboys

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