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"A model detective story...Fascinating."
--New York Times

The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers's work, praising her "great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail." The Dorothy L. Sayers classic, Strong Poison, is now back in print with an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime...

Dorothy L. Sayers paints a perfect picture of murder in this classic mystery--back in print and now available in trade paperback--in which Sir Peter Wimsey must ferret out a murderer in a Scottish artists' colony.

In the scenic Scottish village of Kirkcudbright, no one is disliked more than Sandy Campbell. When the painter is found dead at the foot of cliff, his easel standing above, no one is sorry to see him gone--especially six members of the close knit Galloway artists' colony.

The inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey is on the scene to determine the truth about Campbell's death....

Der siebte Band der Lord-Peter-Wimsey-Reihe in attraktiver Neuausstattung

Harriet Vane entdeckt im Urlaub eine Leiche - da ist der Meisterdetektiv Lord Peter Wimsey sofort zur Stelle.

Die Krimiautorin Harriet Vane müsste eigentlich mit den dunklen Seiten der Welt bestens vertraut sein - aber das schockiert sogar sie: Während des Urlaubs findet sie auf einem Felsen am Strand eine Leiche, die Kehle von einem Ohr bis zum anderen durchgeschnitten. Plötzlich steckt sie selbst mitten in einem Kriminalfall. Lord Peter Wimsey mischt sich in die Ermittlung ein, doch diese Geschichte...

On November 11, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is found dead in an armchair at the Bellona Club. No one knows exactly when his death occurred--information essential in determining the recipient of a substantial inheritance. But that is only one of the mysteries vexing Lord Peter Wimsey. The aristocratic sleuth needs every bit of his amazing skills to discover why the proud officer's lapel was missing the requisite red poppy on Armistice Day, how the Bellona 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...