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Lord Peter Wimsey #6,10,11
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: Strong Poison; Murder Must Advertise; The Nine Tailors
1 Strong Poison 1930 - Judge summarizes case for jury: Bohemian murder mystery author Harriet Vane accused of poisoning lover Philip Boyes. Wimsey proposes before clearing her name.
2 Murder Must Advertise 1933 - Victor Dean fell downstairs at his workplace Pym Publicity, and died from a broken neck and/ or cracked skull with small bruise, his favorite scarab stone charm fallen out of his pocket beside the body. Wimsey goes undercover as new copywriter Death Bredon.
3 The Nine Tailors 1934 - Mutilated face and hands hinder identification of corpse somehow killed by nine bells of St Paul's church. Wimsey visits the rector Venable for a performance of bell ringing and stays to investigate.
2 Murder Must Advertise 1933 - Victor Dean fell downstairs at his workplace Pym Publicity, and died from a broken neck and/ or cracked skull with small bruise, his favorite scarab stone charm fallen out of his pocket beside the body. Wimsey goes undercover as new copywriter Death Bredon.
3 The Nine Tailors 1934 - Mutilated face and hands hinder identification of corpse somehow killed by nine bells of St Paul's church. Wimsey visits the rector Venable for a performance of bell ringing and stays to investigate.
- GenresMystery
598 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1930
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Dorothy L. Sayers
716 books3,004 followersThe detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the
Divine Comedy
of Dante Alighieri.
This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.
Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.
Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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August 27, 2012
"Three Great Lord Peter Novels" by Dorothy L. Sayers
1 Strong Poison 1930
2 Murder Must Advertise 1933
3 The Nine Tailors 1934
The characters read P.G. Wodehouse, and talk of favorite protagonist Bertie Wooster; the style is aristocratic flighty flibberty chit-chat upstairs, rough servant gossip below-stairs. Lots of skimming, especially after realizing read before and vaguely recalled solutions. Physical descriptions of eccentrics approaches hint of Dickens, but empty conversation and reiteration of actions is boring, and most of content. Justice tends to be divine deus ex machina accidental retribution rather than legal consequences.
1 First chapter is dry "parrot-face and parrot-voice" p9 judge summarizes for jury, commented on by Lord Peter Wimsey, who investigates cases out of curiosity, and his flighty elderly aunt. Bohemian authors Miss Harriet Vane and Philip Boyes lived in sin together from March 1928 - February 1929, until she rejected his proposal. His cousin solicitor Norman Urquhart invited him to stay. The ex-lovers met about once in each of the following three months, before which she purchased arsenic for her mystery story finished in jail, after which he sickened with fits of gastritis. Peter instantly falls in love, proposes to Harriet, and sets out to clear her. The trial has been postponed for only one week.
2 Victor Dean fell downstairs at his workplace Pym Publicity, and died from a broken neck and/ or cracked skull with small bruise, his favorite scarab stone charm fallen out of his pocket beside the body. Peter Wimsey goes undercover as new copywriter Death Bredon. Housekeeper reports finding practice slingshot stones on previous nights. Office-boy reports his slingshot was confiscated into desk drawer. Police suspect Nutrax account, managed by Mr Tallboy, involved with drug distribution ring.
3 The nine bells of St Paul's Church are named, called tailors A body is found with French money, face bashed, hands chopped off to hinder identification. Maps of the parish and church help solve decades-old mystery of bigamy, theft, blackmail, and murder. Wimsey visits the rector Venable for a performance of bell ringing and stays to investigate.
1 Strong Poison 1930
2 Murder Must Advertise 1933
3 The Nine Tailors 1934
The characters read P.G. Wodehouse, and talk of favorite protagonist Bertie Wooster; the style is aristocratic flighty flibberty chit-chat upstairs, rough servant gossip below-stairs. Lots of skimming, especially after realizing read before and vaguely recalled solutions. Physical descriptions of eccentrics approaches hint of Dickens, but empty conversation and reiteration of actions is boring, and most of content. Justice tends to be divine deus ex machina accidental retribution rather than legal consequences.
1 First chapter is dry "parrot-face and parrot-voice" p9 judge summarizes for jury, commented on by Lord Peter Wimsey, who investigates cases out of curiosity, and his flighty elderly aunt. Bohemian authors Miss Harriet Vane and Philip Boyes lived in sin together from March 1928 - February 1929, until she rejected his proposal. His cousin solicitor Norman Urquhart invited him to stay. The ex-lovers met about once in each of the following three months, before which she purchased arsenic for her mystery story finished in jail, after which he sickened with fits of gastritis. Peter instantly falls in love, proposes to Harriet, and sets out to clear her. The trial has been postponed for only one week.
2 Victor Dean fell downstairs at his workplace Pym Publicity, and died from a broken neck and/ or cracked skull with small bruise, his favorite scarab stone charm fallen out of his pocket beside the body. Peter Wimsey goes undercover as new copywriter Death Bredon. Housekeeper reports finding practice slingshot stones on previous nights. Office-boy reports his slingshot was confiscated into desk drawer. Police suspect Nutrax account, managed by Mr Tallboy, involved with drug distribution ring.
3 The nine bells of St Paul's Church are named, called tailors A body is found with French money, face bashed, hands chopped off to hinder identification. Maps of the parish and church help solve decades-old mystery of bigamy, theft, blackmail, and murder. Wimsey visits the rector Venable for a performance of bell ringing and stays to investigate.
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