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  • Whose Body?
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    A body in a bathtub. An aristocratic detective. Can Lord Peter Wimsey solve the case before the killer strikes again?In Dorothy L. Sayers’s Whose Body?, the unflappable and sharp-witted Lord Peter Wimsey faces his first major case when a corpse is mysteriously found in a London bathtub-with no clues to its identity. As Lord Peter navigates a web of suspects, alibis, and decepti...
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    14,38 €

  • Clouds of Witness
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Clouds of Witness, Sayers’ second mystery novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, was first published in 1926 in the U.K. and later in the U.S. under the title Clouds of Witnesses. It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.In a shocking scandal, the Duke of Denver stands accused of the foul murd...
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    15,87 €

  • Whose Body?
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    When a dead body, carefully arranged and naked except for a pince-nez, is discovered in a bathtub, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, deducing the man is not who he appears to be, takes it upon himself to solve the mystery, leading to an array of twists and turns that make Whose Body a masterful, intricate, immersive, and supremely intelligent whodunit-the novel that established...
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    9,69 €

  • Whose Body?
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition.  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 ...
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    10,47 €

  • Whose Body?
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone missing under strange circumstances, and as the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way… (wikiped...
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    16,37 €

  • The Attenbury Emeralds
    JILL PATON WALSH / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
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    17,04 €

  • The Emperor Constantine
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    A brief ’Prologue’ by the ’Church’ introduces the career of Constantine (from AD 305-337) with scenes from the empires of both west and east, concentrating on Constantine’s progress to imperial power and inevitably in religious belief. He discovers Christ to be the God who has made him his earthly vice-regent as single Emperor. Summoning the Council of Nicaea in 325, an invigor...
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    24,87 €

  • The Devil To Pay
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    In this play, Dorothy L. Sayers reworked the legend of Faustus as a serious ’comedy,’ presenting Faustus as one who chooses wicked means as an end to an admirable goal: the relief of suffering (while becoming entirely focused on his own supposed satisfactions). In the last scene, in the Court of Heaven, Azrael, angel of the souls of the dead, claims Faustus’ soul, opposing Meph...
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    18,79 €

  • The Just Vengeance
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    In this play, Dorothy L. Sayers addressed the crimes and problems of human life, especially those of the victors in war, in an entirely novel way, by precipitating an airman in the very moment of his death back into the company of citizens of the 'City,' in this case, Lichfield. The citizens range from Adam and Eve (Adam himself the inventor of the axe which kills Abel) togethe...
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    16,98 €

  • The Man Born to Be King
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    In twelve plays for broadcasting at monthly intervals, Dorothy L. Sayers drew on material from all four Gospels, keeping the theme of Jesus of Nazareth’s divine kingship in focus throughout, while locating him firmly in the social and political context of his time. The first half cover episodes that precede the final journey to Jerusalem and the latter half primarily deal with ...
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    40,74 €

  • The Zeal of thy House
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    Dorothy L. Sayers took her inspiration from a monk’s account of the fire of 1174, and the subsequent rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral Quire. She portrays William of Sens, the chosen architect, as eaten away by pride in his splendid work, unable to give glory to God for his achievement. Enacted in the presence of a group of graciously influential archangels, the play reveals t...
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    19,70 €

  • He That Should Come
    Ann Loades / Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    In this first of her plays for religious broadcasting, a nativity play, Dorothy L. Sayers wanted to convince listeners of the truth that Christ was born into our deeply problematic world, in his case, in territory overrun by an army of occupation. Although framed as it were by the voices of the three ’wise men’ asking whether the birth of a particular child could possibly fulfi...
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    17,01 €

  • Whose Body?
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect, and investigates. A noted financier has also gone missing under strange circumstances, and as the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way... (wikip...
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    12,43 €

  • Four Sacred Plays
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    This book contains four short plays by Sayers on a religious theme. The Zeal of Thy House was written for Canterbury Cathedral and dramatises an episode in its construction. The Devil to Pay is a reworking of the Faust legend. He That should Come is a nativity play, originally written for radio, in natural language. The Just Vengeance is about the spirit of a fallen airman, ret...
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    18,19 €

  • Op. I.
    Dorothy L. Sayers / Dorothy LSayers
    Op. I. is a novel written by renowned British author Dorothy L. Sayers. The book is a mystery novel that follows the investigation of a murder that takes place in a small English village. The story revolves around the character of Lord Peter Wimsey, a wealthy aristocrat who is also a detective. Lord Peter Wimsey is called to investigate the murder of a young woman named Harriet...
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    21,24 €