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The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unsual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder — especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.

In this classic mystery, murder strikes close to home. Lord Peter Wimsey's brother is accused of murdering the man who is about to marry their sister. The body has been found at Riddlesdale Lodge, the Wimsey family retreat. Lord Peter must solve the case and clear the family name. The Los Angeles Times called Sayers “one of the greatest mystery writers of the 20th century.” “First-rate… [A] marvelous reading.” – Chicago Sun-Times

"No sign of foul play". So concludes Dr Carr's post-mortem on Agatha Dawson, and the case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied and, with no clues to work on, begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden and senseless murder of Agatha's maid.

90-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died — and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance.Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.

Lord Peter Wimsey becomes fascinated when bohemian Harriet Vane is accused of murdering her lover. He investigates further and finds himself falling in love with her as he visits her in prison and watches her in court. But can he save her from the gallows?

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident? Or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death… five were red herrings. Set in the unusual background of an artists' colony in Galloway, in the south of Scotland, the book is one of the best of Dorothy Sayers' murder-mystery novels which made her the leading writer in the detective fiction field.

A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear…The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name. Murder brings Lord Peter and Harriet together again: when walking on a Dorset beach, Harriet discovers a corpse, the throat cut from ear to ear. Lord Peter comes to her assistance, and their inquiries lead from a distinctive razor blade to the salons of London's fashionable Jermyn Street, from a Russian émigré and professional dance-partner to a mysterious man with one shoulder higher than the other. As they investigate the trail of coded messages and secret agents, Harriet and Lord Peter's relationship becomes as tangled as the cat's-cradle of hints and clues that they are trying to unravel.

La noche de fin de año, Peter Wimsey sufre un accidente de coche y se ve obligado a pernoctar en Fenchurch St. Paul, donde el párroco de la aldea le ofrece alojamiento. Muchos de los aldeanos han enfermado a causa de una fuerte gripe, entre ellos el campanero, de modo que Wimsey se ofrece a cubrir su puesto esa noche.

Meses después, fallece el marido de una de las víctimas de la epidemia. Durante el entierro, descubren un cadáver sin identificar y Wimsey se verá implicado en la investigación de este desconcertante hallazgo, que oculta mucho más de lo que en principio aparenta.

Las historias de lord Wimsey se publicaron entre 1920 y 1940 y relatan las aventuras del hermano menor del duque de Denver, Peter Wimsey. En algún momento previo a las primeras novelas, Wimsey empezó a investigar crímenes como aficionado; ahora, la policía (especialmente el inspector Parker) valora su colaboración y lo considera un competente sabueso. Los nueve sastres es uno de los libros más conocidos de la serie de lord Peter.

Cuando Harriet Vane regresa a la Universidad de Oxford, encuentra a los profesores y alumnos de su college nerviosos por los extraños mensajes de un lunático. Con la ayuda de lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet empieza una investigación para desenmascarar al autor de las amenazas.

Una novela de misterio, e incluso de terror, Los secretos de Oxford es también una obra sobre el papel de las mujeres en la sociedad contemporánea, una reflexión sobre la educación y una historia de amor entre dos mentes privilegiadas.

Una de las mejores novelas de misterio del siglo XX y la obra maestra de Sayers, precursora de Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch o A.S. Byatt.

Victor Dean falls to his death on the stairs of Pym's Advertising Agency, and no one is sorry. That is until Lord Peter Wimsey joins the firm and asks some awkward questions. Finding himself involved in a web of blackmail and drugs, more must die before the sinister plot can be unravelled.

Nine teller strokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia

Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford. A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help.

Lord Peter Wimsey arranged a quiet country honeymoon with Harriet Vane, but what should have been an idyllic holiday in an ancient farmhouse takes on a new and unwelcome aspect with the discovery of the previous owner's body in the cellar.