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Strong Poison The Documents in the Case The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Lord Peter Views the Body Unnatural Death

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First British Edition Gollancz (1930)

Strong Poison
Lord Peter Wimsey is involved in a race against time, and against the executioner. Harriet Vane stands accused of murder. The counsel for the prosecution claims that she poisoned her lover. Is she not a writer of detective stories, and therefore privy to all the expertise required? And was she not seen buying arsenic, prussic acid, and strychnine shortly before her lover's death? Fortunately for her, the jury cannot agree among themselves and a retrial is ordered. Wimsey has only a month to prove her innocence, and he is by now a man in love - which can only complicate his hunt to find the killer, who is still at large, and as dangerous as ever.
'The end of the story is as ingenious as any solution could be.' The Times

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Paperback - NEL (2004)

Hardback Gollancz (1948)

Paperback Penguin (1938)

The Documents in the Case
With a new introduction by Elizabeth George
The bed was broken and tilted grotesquely sideways. Harrison was sprawled over in a huddle of soiled blankets. His mouth was twisted…
Harrison had been an expert on deadly mushrooms. How was it then that he had eaten a large quantity of death-dealing muscarine? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder?
The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. But they concealed a clue to the brilliant murderer who baffled the best minds in London.
'I admire her novels… she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit' P.D.James
'Sayers has done more to add literary tone to crime fiction than most of her contemporaries' Ellery Queen

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Hardback Gollancz (1947)

Paperback - NEL (2004)

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
With a new introduction by Elizabeth George
Lord Peter Wimsey bent down over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the gnarled old hands. Then with a quick jerk, he lifted the quiet figure. It came up all of a piece, stiff as a wooden doll…
But it was not a simple case of death from natural causes. For instance, who was the mysterious Mr. X who fled when he was wanted for questioning? And which of the General's heirs, both members of the Club, is lying?
This sinister case takes Dorothy Sayers' unique detective from London to Paris and finally back to the austere and sombre dignity of the Bellona Club itself.
'I admire her novels… she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
'A cleverly constructed, cunningly clued and tautly written mystery' P.D.James
'Sayers has done more to add literary tone to crime fiction than most of her contemporaries' Ellery Queen

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Paperback - NEL (2004)

Hardback Gollancz (1948)

Lord Peter Views the Body
With a new introduction by Elizabeth George
Lord Peter Wimsey stories:

• The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers
• The entertaining Episode of the Article in Question
• The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will
• The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag
• The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker
• The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention
• The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran
• The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste
• The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head
• The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach
• The Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No Face
• The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba

'I admire her novels… she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit' P.D.James
'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller' Minette Walters

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Hardback Gollancz (1948)

Paperback - NEL (2004)

Unnatural Death
With a new introduction by Elizabeth George
'No sign of foul play,' says Dr Carr after the post-mortem on Agatha Dawson. The case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied…
With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden, senseless murder of Agatha's maid.
What is going on in the mysterious Mrs Forrest's Mayfair flat? And can Wimsey catch a desperate murderer before he himself becomes on of the victims?
'I admire her novels… she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit' P.D.James
'D.L.Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' E.C.Bentley, Daily Telegraph

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