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The Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery MEGAPACK® features an aristocratic detective unraveling mysteries in 1920s England. Includes 16 novels and short stories.

Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which Harriet Vane appears.Mystery novelist Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its most unpleasant aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach deserted but for one notable exception: the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might easily have been a suicide, a murder, or a political plot. With the appearance of her dear friend Lord Peter Wimsey, however, Harriet finds yet another reason to pursue the mystery, as only the two of them can pursue it.

When Lord Peter Wimsey comes down to the Bellona Club to dine with an old friend, he little expected to find the 90-year-old General Fentiman sitting quietly by the fire in full rigor mortis. Nor, did he expect to be confronted with a case about which one of the General or his sister, Lady Dormer, predeceased the other. But, seeing that it was a matter of some half-million pounds, he was delighted to oblige old Mr. Murbles, the family solicitor. It turns out that establishing Fentiman's time of death is going to be a major feat. No one, including his heirs, the staff of the Bellona Club, and most of London seems to recall what the General was doing that morning, or when he showed up, opened his newspaper, and promptly expired. Worse, what few facts that Wimsey can put together convince him that something is very, very wrong with Fentiman's timely ticking off. Suddenly this is no longer a case of friendly detection, but a serious investigation into murder!

When the dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford, invite her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts. Who is responsible for the poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti, and wanton vandalism? Harriet asks her old friend Lord Peter Wimsey to investigate.

The very first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel finds the debonaire sleuth investigating the strange case of the corpse in the bathtub...who may not be who he seems!

Lord Peter Wimsey DSO is the hero of a series of detective novels and stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and in a few books by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife. Included are 11 novels and 25 stories. NOVELS: WHOSE BODY? (1923) CLOUDS OF WITNESS (1926) THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB (1928) STRONG POISON (1930) THE FIVE RED HERRINGS (1931) GAUDY NIGHT (1931) HAVE HIS CARCASE (1932) MURDER MUST ADVERTISE (1933) THE NINE TAILORS (1934) BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON (1937) STRIDING FOLLY (1939) SHORT STORIES: THE HAUNTED POLICEMAN THE IMAGE IN THE MIRROR THE INCREDIBLE ELOPEMENT OF LORD PETER WIMSEY THE QUEEN'S SQUARE THE NECKLACE OF PEARLS THE MAN WHO KNEW HOW THE FOUNTAIN PLAYS THE ABOMINABLE HISTORY OF THE MAN WITH COPPER FINGERS THE ENTERTAINING EPISODE OF THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION THE FASCINATING PROBLEM OF UNCLE MELEAGER'S WILL THE FANTASTIC HORROR OF THE CAT IN THE BAG THE UNPRINCIPLED AFFAIR OF THE PRACTICAL JOKER THE UNDIGNIFIED MELODRAMA OF THE BONE OF CONTENTION THE VINDICTIVE STORY OF THE FOOTSTEPS THAT RAN THE BIBULOUS BUSINESS OF A MATTER OF TASTE THE LEARNED ADVENTURE OF THE DRAGON'S HEAD THE PISCATORIAL FARCE OF THE STOLEN STOMACH THE UNSOLVED PUZZLE OF THE MAN WITH NO FACE THE ADVENTUROUS EXPLOIT OF THE CAVE OF ALI BABA THE POISONED DOW'08 SLEUTHS ON THE SCENT MURDER IN THE MORNING ONE TOO MANY MURDER AT PENTECOST MAHER-SHALAL-HASHBAZ If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for'Wildside Press Megapack'to see more of the 350+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!