Lord Peter

Very good book in very good- jacket. Dust jacket has a couple of tiny chips and a small closed tear on the back, now in new removable protective cover. Black boards, with gilt printing on spine. Pages light, clean, unmarked. Harper hardcover with dust jacket, 1987 edition but 1990 book club printing; ISBN: 9780060550394. 487 pages, cover art by Marie Michal. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75") All the short Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, with an introduction, an essay, and a parody "Greedy Night." Contents: Introduction, by James Sandoe. Twelve stories which comprised Lord Peter Views the Body (1928): 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. Four stories from Hangman's Holiday (1933): The Image in the Mirror; The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey; The Queen's Square; The Necklace of Pearls. Two stories from In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939): In the Teeth of the Evidence; Absolutely Elsewhere. Three later stories also collected in Striding Folly (1972): Striding Folly; The Haunted Policeman; Talboys. Coda: Sayers, Lord Peter and God, by Carolyn Heilbrun. Codetta: Greedy Night, A Parody, by E. C. Bentley.