Macmillan Collector’s Library: Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, the only child of the Rev. Henry Sayers. She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, and in 1915 she finished her modern languages course with first-class honours. After university she worked in a publisher's office before joining an advertising firm, S. H. Benson, where she coined the famous slogan: 'Guinness is good for you'. In 1923 she published her first novel, Whose Body?, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories. She also wrote plays and essays, and she considered her best work to be her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. She died in 1957.

The very best of Dorothy L. Sayerss Lord Peter Wimsey short stories in one volume, edited and introduced by crime writer David Stuart Davies. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collectors Library are books to love and treasure. Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of the golden age of crime. This Macmillan Collectors Library edition of Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates is introduced and edited by crime writer David Stuart Davies. The fifteen short stories in this lively and witty collection, Dorothy L. Sayerss very best, celebrate the breadth of Peter Wimseys career as Londons most celebrated amateur sleuth. From the foppish man about town of In the Teeth of the Evidence, to the happily married man in The Haunted Policeman, to the father of three in Talboys, Wimsey kept that twinkle in his eye and the brilliance of mind that helped him spot a clue a mile off.

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