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Amazon sale on this short story collection if there are any Lord Peter Wimsey fans out there!
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#BookMail Pt6 I‘m a big fan of Golden Age Crime, been reading Dame Agatha since I was 10, but I‘ve never read a Dorothy L Sayers novel before. Whilst rereading Phryne Fisher I noticed Kerry Greenwood is a fan, she has Phryne reading them in a few books, so I‘m taking her word for it.This isn‘t the 1st book but it‘s the 1st that‘s come so far. I‘m having a bad run with Booktopia.com.au having my order books in stock. Not that I‘m wanting for books.

My love for Peter Wimsey is well known, so the fact that I enjoyed this is no surprise. I think I‘d read all of these before in the individual complications. My only gripe is that the Wimsey Papers from her wartime writing weren‘t in here.

I suspect I may have read all of these already, but it doesn‘t hurt to check!

#12daysofchristmas #10LordsALeaping I don‘t know how much leaping he did but Lord Peter Wimsey considers his detective work a hobby.He had a large income being descended from a 12 century knight .Dorothy Sayers said she liked spending the fortune she created for him especially when she was a little strapped herself.It also gave Dorothy a way to add a little social satire of the British class system.Trying to figure out what ones I‘ve read.🤔

A shout out to book designers!Ms. Sayers wrote her books in the 1930s.These Perennial Library editions were printed in the 1980s,always thought they were attractive and reference a sweet deco 1930s style.I think they still look great today. I found the larger one in a thrift store recently.Both on the TBR .

"Always my unfortunate appearance," moaned Lord Peter, which such alarming acumen as to double her discomfort. "Would it invite confidence more, d'you suppose, if I dyed my hair black an' grew a Newgate fringe? It's very tryin', you can't think, always to look as if one's name was Algy."

#recommendsWednesday I couldn't find this book in the data base but I want to recommend Lord Peter to all the Agatha Christie fans. As a kid I read lots of mystery stories and books and I particularly liked the older English type 📚

"Nobody minds coarseness but one must draw the linear cruelty."