Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.11
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr…
Want to Read $ 12.99"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry, but no detective could have had a more unsuspecting victim."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
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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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- detective
- classics
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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- crime
"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. Death of a Peer (Roderick Alleyn, #10)
By: Ngaio Marsh
4.00
Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Murder becomes a family affair... The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, t… read more
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- british literature
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3. 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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- mystery thriller
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- murder mystery
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- historical fiction
- crime
4. Colour Scheme (Roderick Alleyn, #12)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.80
Format: None pages,
A spa-goer resorts to murder. Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near … read more
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- crime
5. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Death served well-chilled The leading lady of a theater company touring New Zealand was stunning… read more
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- mystery thriller
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"What do you think, Mr Alleyn? If there's another war will the young chaps come at it, same as we did, thinking it's great? And get the same jolt? What do you reckon?" "I'm afraid to speculate," said …"-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)
"My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to …"-Ngaio Marsh, Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #5)
6. 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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- mystery
- crime
7. 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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- classics
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- crime
"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)
8. 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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- classics
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- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"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)
9. 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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- british literature
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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)
10. 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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- british literature
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- mystery
- crime
11. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- mystery
- crime
"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)
16. 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. The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
By: Michael Wyndham Thomas
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
1967. The Summer of Love. Not for Jonathan Parry, perhaps, but certainly a time of big he and his … read more
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"All happened so damn fast,"-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
"Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen."-Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows: A novel
19. Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
4.11
Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition
The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harr… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- murder mystery
- mystery
- historical fiction
- crime
"I always have a quotation for everything--it saves original thinking."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"A solitary rock is always attractive. All right-minded people feel an overwhelming desire to scale and sit upon it."-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
"In the mood of relaxation and confidence that follows on being parboiled, it was easy enough to pump Mrs Weldon. A little diplomacy was needed, so as not to betray the ulterior object of the inquiry,…"-Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
20. Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis
By: Gina Dalfonzo
4.10
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
What happens when we push past the surface and allow real, grounded, mutually challenging, and edif… read more
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"She [Dorothy L. Sayers] believed the the artist must serve the work faithfully, but that ultimately, in doing so, he or she was serving Someone higher than the work."-Gina Dalfonzo, Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis
21. A Man Who Seemed Real: A Story of Love, Lies, Fear and Kindness
By: Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
4.41
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL - a story of love, lies, fear and kindness Jonathan has lost something huge … read more
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"This sounds admirable! I do so much admire what you are doing. Using this wonderful old house."-Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A Man Who Seemed Real: A Story of Love, Lies, Fear and Kindness
"Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered, ‘You can keep going until someone is kind."-Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A Man Who Seemed Real: A Story of Love, Lies, Fear and Kindness
"…the painting was now all finished, she would leave the masking tape on till it dried. It was satisfying to do this. A job with a beginning, middle and end, and people to have dinner with. Don’t thin…"-Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A Man Who Seemed Real: A Story of Love, Lies, Fear and Kindness
"Hi Hazel Well here I am in the office and it’s dead quiet. What I’ll do is email pics of some of the stuff in the files and the comments with them. This is exactly what you wanted – stuff about the G…"-Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A Man Who Seemed Real: A Story of Love, Lies, Fear and Kindness
