All the stories in a single volume! "What could be a greater joy to Wimsey fanciers than this volume of all the short stories about him? Many have been unavailable for years, and rereading the more familiar ones is as keen a pleasure as ever. There are 20 of the stories, every one a model of style, pure detection and character-and-background delight" ... This edition includes the recently discovered story, "Talboys", about Harriet and Peter and their...

The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when Lord Peter Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favorite chair. A straightforward death by natural causes? Perhaps--but why can no-one remember seeing the general the day he died? And, who is the mysterious Mr. Oliver? Lord Peter moves between London and Paris, salon and suburbs, to unfold the intriguing case.

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, she and Lord Peter Wimsey are haunted by pranks and messages that threaten murder, but, strangely, all of the messages are perfectly worded.

"These interpretive essays on Dante's thought and poetry open to the general reader the vistas explored in that superb work of human spirit, The Divine Comedy. Miss Sayers has alrady translated the cantos on "Hell" and "Purgatory." Intitmate living with a work while translating it has enabled Miss Sayers to write a down-to-eath guide through the intricacies of simile, mataphor and allegory....The author gives a clear-cut understanding, based on Dante's...

The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was of a man who had died horribly-with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill thirty people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species? A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about,...

Tale of suspense in which the famous Lord Peter Wimsey is called upon to solve the murder of an unknown man in East Anglia.