In the Teeth of the Evidence (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 14)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008JVJM4W |
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| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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A handful of other glittering puzzles round out the volume, serving as testament to Sayers’s enduring status as a star of crime fiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. The corpse is burned beyond recognition, but the watch it wears remains pristine—stopped precisely at seven minutes past nine. These are the sorts of clues that great murder cases are built around, and few detectives are more adept at finding them than Wimsey, the famous creation of Dorothy L. In this volume, two classic Wimsey stories appear alongside five starring Montague Egg, an eccentric wine salesman whose powers of deduction could give His Lordship a run for his money. Wade Center at Wheaton College.. But Lord Peter Wimsey has never seen such a body, a
“These are truly remarkable stories, adding much to the already great reputation of Dorothy L. Sayers.” —The New York Times
Warning This book needs to come with a warning. There is very little Peter Whimsey here. It is pumped up with the Sayer's biography. Not a good value.. Stories with Bite It is definitely misleading that this collection is labeled as "A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Collection" since "In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Mysteries" contains only two stories featuring Sayers' sleuth. Five of the other stories feature the singular salesman-moonlighting detective Montague Egg, and the remaining ten stories are a delightful hodgepodge of harmless and funny intrigues to disturbing and thought provoking mysteries.Some of the standout stories in this collection, among the more humorous and lighthearted offerings, are "The Milk Bottles" and "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd". The first is a tale about a newspa. Ho-hum Sayers' compendium (book details) Patrick W. Crabtree The big teaser here is the pair of Lord Peter Wimsey stories and they are very brief ones to be sure. The "mysteries" here are of the Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine variety.The Avon Books paperback edition (1952, plus subsequent reprints) cover states: "The most astounding cases of Lord Peter Wimsey [the opposite is true -- these are by far his least intriguing cases] and a bizarre collection of poisonings, knifings, shootings, and other inexplicable crimes." Well, they are in fact pretty much all 'explicable' as most are resolved with finality near their respective conclusions. A couple of these stories are meant to keep the r