In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pa[...]
In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers --considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age--abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commis[...]
Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, "Thrones Dominations," Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript--with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the "San Francisco Chronicle"; "you canno[...]
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way.[...]
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It is 1936 and Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon to set up home with his cherished new wife, the novelist Harriet Vane. As they become part of fashionable London society they encounter the glamorous socialite Rosamund Harwell and her wealthy impressario husband Laurence. Unlike the[...]
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mysteryLord Peter Wimsey and his manservant Bunter are halfway across the wild flatlands of East Anglia when they make a wrong turn, straight into a ditch. They scramble over the rough country to the nearest church, where the[...]
Married at last, Lord Peter and Harriet find their honeymoon interrupted by a killerIt took several near-death experiences for Lord Peter Wimsey to convince Harriet Vane to be his wife, but she has finally relented. When the dapper detective marries Britain's most popular mystery authorjust a few sh[...]
Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket and was Lord Peter's brother-in-law-to-be. His accused murderer was W[...]
A full-cast dramatization specially recorded for BBC Audiobooks, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter WimseyWhen Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letter[...]
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature s most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. When mystery writer Harriet Vane is accused of the murder o[...]
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature s most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization. When the body of Sandy Campbell is found at the foot of a c[...]
The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead a trifle sooner than expected but there are no apparent signs of foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey, however, senses that something is amiss and refuses to let the case rest even without any clues or leads. Suddenly, he is faced with another murder: Agatha s maid. Can sup[...]