Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories

All of the short stories by "one of the greatest mystery story writers" ("Los Angeles Times") is collected for the first time in one volume. This delightfully gruesome compendium of puzzles and baffling cases features such favorites as Lord Peter Wimsey, one of fiction's most popular detectives, and working class salesman-sleuth Montague Egg.

Gathered here for the first time in one volume are all the short stories by the legendary mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers. In this beguiling collection, Sayers conveys in her incomparable way the gruesome, the grotesque, and the bewitching. Here is the inimitable aristocrat, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of fiction's most popular detectives of all time, up to his usual exploits as he solves tantalizing puzzles, as only he can. And then there's the clever working-class salesman-sleuth, Montague Egg, who uses his everyday smarts to solve the cases that baffle the professionals. A sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings, "Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories" is a mystery lover's treasure trove of the amusing and appalling things that happen on the way to the gallows.