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1) Whose body?
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 1
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English
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Meet Lord Peter Wimsey, stylish, eccentric, seeming a fool, but in fact one of the great English detectives. The discovery of a body in a bathtub wearing only a pair of spectacles and as a noted financier has also gone missing under strange circumstances, Wimsey starts his investigation. As the case progresses it becomes clear to the detective that the two events are linked in some way that is not at all obvious.
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 2
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English
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As Lord Peter Wimsey enjoys his time in Corsica, he's brought back to reality when all of the headlines claim that his brother, Gerald, has been arrested for murder. Gerald, who had been on a hunting trip at the family's estate in Yorkshire with his brother-in-law, had gotten into a fight with the man about his sordid past. Hours later, the man is dead, and Gerald is the main suspect. As Gerald maintains his innocence, it's up to Wimsey to figure...
Author
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The ad men at Pym's can sell anything, even murder. The iron staircase at Pym's Publicity is a deathtrap, and no one in the advertising agency is surprised when Victor Dean tumbles down it, cracking his skull along the way. Dean's replacement arrives just a few days later: a green copywriter named Death Bredon. Though he displays a surprising talent for the business of selling margarine, alarm clocks, and nerve tonics, Bredon is not really there to...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
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English
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Married at last, Lord Peter and Harriet find their honeymoon interrupted by a killer. It took several near-death experiences for Lord Peter Wimsey to convince Harriet Vane to be his wife, but she has finally relented. When the dapper detective marries Britain's most popular mystery author, just a few short years after rescuing her from the hangman's noose, the press could not be more excited. But Lord Peter and his bride have no interest in spending...
5) Gaudy night
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Back at Oxford for her reunion, Harriet Vane, Lord Peter's beloved, finds herself in mortal danger. Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting...
6) Whose Body?: The Singular Adventure of the Man with the Golden Pince-Nez: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mys
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English
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Note: This edition of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel is narrated in an American accent.
Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced the body is that of Sir Reuben Levy, a famous Jewish financier who disappeared...
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