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Lord Peter - a Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 60578
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Perennial Library Ed
Pages: 496
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060913800
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780060913809
ASIN: 0060913800
Publication Date: November 1986
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A period piece but still great fun September 18, 2006
Roman Clodia (London)
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
This was written in the days when detective fiction was about great and often eccentric characters and when intellectual and mind-boggling puzzles were the order, rather than lots of blood and gore - a bit like Agatha Christie. If you like that, then you'll love this collection of all the short stories featuring Sayers' eccentric aristocratic detective (way before boring old Linley!) Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers herself was a serious intellectual, having translated Dante and worked on early christianity, but while there are the occasional touches of her erudition here, these are basically little gems of detection which feature real characters in a wonderfully glamorous 1930-40s setting. Possibly old-fashioned, but still hugely entertaining.
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