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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...

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 commissioned to complete it. The result was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations.
Now, this irresistible story is back in paperback. Picking up where Sayers left off, Jill Paton Walsh brings Lord Peter and Harriet Vane brilliantly to life in Sayers' unmistakable voice. Thrones,...

A sure treat for Dorothy L. Sayers's legions of fans, The Complete Stories is the ultimate collectible. This delightfully gruesome collection captures all of Sayers's short stories in one volume. The tantalizing puzzles and baffling cases will provide mystery lovers with a sumptuous feast of criminal doings and all those amusing and appalling things that happen on the way to the gallows.