Spine slanted, creased, reading crease, some edge wear and rubbing. A good reading copy. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 6" - 7" Tall; 370 pages; "At last ... Lord Peter Wimsey and his Harriet - the woman he had saved from wrongful conviction for murder - were married! With the reception over and the reporters dodged, they had only to slip into the Daimler, which the suavely imperturbable Bunter had laden with provisions from Fortnum's and a tenderly-wrapped crate of port, and cruise down to Paggleham for what should have been the most peaceful of honeymoons. "But this is 'a love story with detective i... View More...
Pocket Book #85 with a vintage cover portraying s darkly spotlighted dead woman lying in an ominous rural setting. Edgewear, especially along spine, corners bumped, incipient cracking at half-title page, Text is clean and fairly bright for a 65+ year old book. "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 Wimsey's own brother, and if mur... View More...
0061043532 Spine slightly slanted, a bit creased, slight edge wear and rubbing, a little creasing and scuffing. A nice copy. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 279 pages; "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 Wimsey's own brother, and if murder set all in the family wasn't enough to boggle the unflappable Lord Wimsey, pe... View More...
Light brown boards with dark brown lettering. Corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear and chipping, spine a bit sunned. An attractive copy. ; Book Club # 9069, no publication date listed. A Dorothy Sayers duo. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; Book Club Edition; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 409 pages; Clouds of Witness: "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 ... View More...
Pale blue boards, gold lettering. Spine a bit cocked, corners chipped, a little edge wear and rubbing, writing by owner on front FEP. Jacket in new Brodart, minor edge wear. An attractive copy. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 736 pages; "The elegant and urbane Lord Peter Wimsey, rare book expert, stunning cricketer, well-known London and Parisian bon vivant, shows his true personality - master detective - in these four delightful Dorothy L. Sayers novels." Whose Body? : "The unidentified body in the bathtub wore only a pince-nez. . . And was unabashedly dead. Whose b... View More...
Spine slightly slanted, minor edge wear, light reading crease. A nice copy. ; Avon V 2253. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 221 pages;
13 stories by Dorothy Sayers, including 2 Lord Peter Wimsey and 5 Montague Egg tales. "'In the Teeth of the Evidence' is not only an ingenious story of a very modern murderer and of how he is brought to justice by Lord Peter Wimsey. It is more than that. It is the over-all title of a full baker's dozen of incomparable episodes concerning crime, criminals, and criminologists -- told as only Dorothy Sayers can tell them." View More...
0380004534 Spine slanted, creased, base repaired with tape. Some edge wear and a little chipping, covers creased with some soiling. A solid reading copy. ; Avon N 453.; Ex-Library; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 221 pages; 13 stories by Dorothy Sayers, including 2 Lord Peter Wimsey and 5 Montague Egg tales. "'In the Teeth of the Evidence' is not only an ingenious story of a very modern murderer and of how he is brought to justice by Lord Peter Wimsey. It is more than that. It is the over-all title of a full baker's dozen of incomparable episodes concerning crime, criminals, and criminologists -... View More...
0060923954 Slight edge wear and rubbing. A bright, attractive copy. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 317 pages; "In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque, but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures. Lord Peter views the body in twelve tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outstanding collection. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers -- Uncle Meleager's missing will -- the cat in the bag -- the footsteps than ran -- the stolen stomach -- the man without a face --... View More...
Ex-library with only a couple stamps. Spine well creased and slanted, base repaired with tape. Covers creased and scuffed, some edge wear, some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked.
Sayer's only novel written with a collaborator. "The extraordinary plant expert was poisoned--and his deadly specimens told no tales. The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. Yet they concealed a clue to the brilliant murderer who baffled the best minds in London."; Ex-Library; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall View More...
Red cloth with gold lettering. Corners a bit bent, slight edge wear and rubbing, front board starting a bit. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmarked. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, a little edge wear, some chipping primarily at top and base of spine, a little soiling. Overall a nice copy. ; 5/- 'Cheap edition.' ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 174 pages; Sayer's only novel written with a collaborator. "The extraordinary plant expert was poisoned--and his deadly specimens told no tales. The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes and letters home. Yet they c... View More...
0156658992 Slight spine slant, reading crease, corners bumped, minor edge wear, a little cover soiling, owner's name on front end paper. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. Overall, a nice copy. ; No publication date listed, but likely early 1980s. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 311 pages; A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. "The nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll out the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases. Steeped in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat fen-... View More...
Spine a bit slanted, creased, some edge wear, scuffing along spine, some cover creasing and soiling. Interior in good condition. A nice reading copy. ; Avon S 256. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 192 pages; "Ninety-year-old General Fendman 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 oif why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman,... View More...
Spine scuffed along edges with small tears at top and base. Some edge wear, cover creasing and a little sunning, owner's name on half title page. Interior good. ; Pocket Books # 74, lists Pocket Books 1-79 inside. Characteristic sturdy 'Perma-Gloss' covers. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 346 pages; "Ninety-year-old General Fendman 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 oif why the General's lapel was... View More...
Black boards with gold lettering. Spine cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 312 pages; "Dorothy L. Sayers is perhaps best known for two unique characters--Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, whose complex courtship eventually ended in marriage. Their life together began with a corpse in the honeymoon cottage, but (except in two tantalizingly brief stories) readers were never able to see this extraordinary couple after the honeymoon--until now. In 1939, before Sayers gave up mystery writing, she began a new ... View More...
