Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque b…
Want to Read $ 2.99"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
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1. The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)
By: Margery Allingham
3.93
Format: 579 pages, Hardcover
Detective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Well… read more
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"There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world."-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)
"Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which ar…"-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)
2. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.82
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more
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3. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more
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"Do you read crime fiction?"-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
4. Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)
By: Margery Allingham
3.57
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The impoverished Fitton family inhabit a run-down mill in a Suffolk village, and suspect their brot… read more
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5. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
By: Margery Allingham
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more
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"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)
6. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.96
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more
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"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)
7. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more
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"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)
8. The Late Scholar (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #4)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey - now a Duke - and his wife Harriet Vane, set in a… read more
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9. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)
By: Margery Allingham
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Paperback
A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more
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10. The Attenbury Emeralds (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #3)
By: Jill Paton Walsh
5.00
Format: None pages,
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later,… read more
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11. A Presumption of Death (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane, #2)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers , Jill Paton Walsh
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
While Lord Peter is abroad on a secret mission, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, takes their ch… read more
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12. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)
By: Margery Allingham
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more
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13. Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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"I has such a sinking in my inside I has to get up and eat biscuits."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
"And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol. It was at th…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #4)
14. Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion Mystery #4)
By: Margery Allingham
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact t… read more
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15. Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2)
By: Margery Allingham
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind … read more
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16. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.96
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more
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"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
17. Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot.… read more
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18. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more
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20. These Names Make Clues
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.66
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Should detectives go to parties? Was it consistent with the dignity of the Yard? The inspector tos… read more
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21. The Dragon's Head: Classic English Short Stories
By: Anonymous
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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