Dorothy L Sayers
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"Murder Must Advertise"--Lord Peter Wimsey is called in to investigate a death at a respectable London advertising agency and finds cocaine, blackmail, wanton women, and a brutal succession of murders.
"Gaudy Night"--When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, the prim academic setting is haunted by bizarre pranks, some threatening murder. In a nightmare of romance and terror, there are only shreds of clues for Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter...
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A naked body is discovered in the bathroom of a London architect's apartment. Is it Sir Reuben Levy, the well-known financier who recently disappeared? Or is it a stiff dragged from the dissecting rooms of St. Luke's Hospital? Lord Peter Wimsey must unravel the tangled threads that lead from a prostitute, to a well-known surgeon, and to a mysterious reunion at a London night-club.
46) Trup w wannie
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(Dorothy Leigh),Lord Peter Wimsey volume 1
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Polish
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Seria kryminałów drugiej obok Agathy Christie kultowej autorki brytyjskiej. Po raz pierwszy w Polsce w całości! Szanowany architekt znajduje w swojej wannie zwłoki ubrane jedynie w... binokle. Prowadzący oficjalne śledztwo inspektor Sugg uznaje, że ciało należy do finansisty, który w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach zniknął z własnej sypialni poprzedniej nocy. Dość szybko okazuje się jednak, że sprawa nie jest tak prosta. A nic...
50) Have his carcase
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In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across 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 have been suicide, murder or a political...
51) Strong poison
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In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
56) Gaudy night
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The third installment of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mysteries, unfolds at the all female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. Upon returning to Oxford for the first time in years for a school reunion, Harriet Vane is asked by her old professors to turn her talents as a detective writer to practical use. Someone is terrorizing the faculty and students of the college by sending vicious anonymous letters, eventually leading to the destruction of...
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Twenty years after visiting East Anglia, Wimsey is stranded there after an auto mishap. When a mutilated body is found on the estate, Wimsey discovers a connection to the jewels that were stolen 20 years before. The full picture eludes him until a natural disaster strikes and the nine church bells that signal death in a country town ring out.