AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
NarratorFull Cast
Duration2h 20m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations, Cosy Crime
PublisherBBC Audio
VersionUnabridged
Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Dorothy L. Sayers' first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author's best-known characters. Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of 'such a quaint thing'. She has heard through a friend that Mr Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bath - wearing nothing but a gold prince-nez. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr Thipps, and a good look at the body raises a number of interesting questions. Why would such an apparently well-groomed man have filthy black toenails, flea bites and the scent of carbolic soap lingering on his corpse? Then comes the disappearance of oil millionaire Sir Reuben Levy, last seen on the Battersea Park Road. With his beard shaved he would look very similar to the man found in the bath but is Sir Levy really dead?
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 15
Duration 3h 20m
Three of Lord Peter Wimsey's most baffling cases demonstrate his unique detection skills at their most spectacular. The engima of a house numbered thirteen in a street of even numbers; an indignant child accused of theft; a dream about a game of chess that uncovers the true story behind a violent death. Each of the stories introduces a different si...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 3
Duration 7h 49m
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. His third appearance is a story of murder in a most respectable seaside resort. 'No sign of foul play,' says Dr Carr after the post-mortem on Agatha Dawson. Th...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 14
Duration 8h 41m
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The 14th book featuring Lord Peter is a collection of short stories: 17 little masterpieces of crime writing. In In the Teeth of the Evidence, all that was lef...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell, Robert Eustace
Duration 8h 14m
The best of the golden-age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field, including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. But in this thrilling murder story, she tells her story instead through the letters of the victim and the suspects. The bed was broken and tilted grotesquely...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 19m
When Victor Dean fell to his death on the iron staircase at Pym's Advertising Agency no one was sorry. Nobody had really liked him - and even contributing to his wreath was a bit of an imposition. But when Lord Peter Wimsey (alias Death Bredon) joins the firm and asks some awkward questions it appears that Dean's death was not an accident - it was...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 10h 30m
Storm-bound over the New Year at a Fenland rectory, Lord Peter Wimsey willingly lends a hand in the ringing of a New Year's Eve peal of the church bells. Some months later, a handless, disfigured corpse is discovered in a fresh grave in the churchyard. Lord Peter receives a plea for help from the rector and embarks on one of his most complicated in...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 2
Duration 8h 23m
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. His second appearance is a thrilling quest to save his own brother - the Duke of Denver - from the hangman. The Duke of Denver, accused of murder, stands trial...
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 1
Duration 5h 48m
It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance. The body wore nothing else. Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' Battersea bathroom.
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Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 12
Duration 16h 23m
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The twelfth book featuring Lord Peter (the third novel to feature Harriet Vane) is set in an Oxford women's college. Harriet Vane has never dared to return to...
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Lord Peter Whimsey Book 1: Whose Body?
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Author Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrator Frederick Davidson
SeriesLord Peter Wimsey, Book 1
Duration 12h 59m
Enter the 1920s' Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the debut of a dashing gentleman detective, one of the great characters of mystery fiction - Lord Peter Wimsey. An unidentified corpse is found in a bathtub, and the police are jumping to conclusions about its identity and that of the murderer. Lord Pete...
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