Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mystery.
While ringing in the New Year, Lord Peter stumbles into an ominous country mystery.
Miss Seeton is “awarded” a luxury cruise catering to art lovers, not knowing that Scotland Yard suspects art fraud. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!
Trish Thumper is on track to be a star tennis player only her father’s enemies have other plans for her. Luckily Sir George is a friend of his and Rytham Hall provides a safe refuge for Trish where the bad guys will have to contend with an eccentric English spinster.
There’s more to copywriting than meets the eye, when Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover as a copywriter to uncover the truth of a suspicious accident.
Who should be hobnobbing with the great and the good at a Buckingham Palace garden party but little Miss Emily Seeton, retired teacher and artistic sleuth. It seems there may be a traitor amongst HM’s faithful retainers.
When the only treasure chests found have corpses instead of coins, Jack has to spring into action. Because sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.
An omnibus of thirteen stories : four are part of the Lord Peter Wimsey vintage mystery series, six feature Montague Egg, and the last two are independent stories, all taking place in the England of the early 20th century.
Tess Callahan, the new owner of Dead End Pawn, investigates a banshee-kidnapping spree with her new partner, Jack Shepherd, tiger shapeshifter and P.I.
During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder when a hated painter takes a tumble about which Lord Peter Wimsey has his suspicions.
Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman’s noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent.