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I rarely read short stories, but I greatly enjoyed this collection by Dorothy L.Sayers, which includes four Lord Peter Wimsey stories, six featuring travelling salesman Montague Egg (I do wish he had merited his own novel) and two stand alone stories.
I read this as part of my attempt to, finally, read all of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels/stories. However, I have to say that my very favourites in this collection were the two final stories in this book; the stand alone stories, “The Man Who Knew Ho ...more
I read this as part of my attempt to, finally, read all of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels/stories. However, I have to say that my very favourites in this collection were the two final stories in this book; the stand alone stories, “The Man Who Knew Ho ...more
I first read this collection of short stories many years ago, but when I happened to see that the audiobook narrated by Ian Carmichael, the original Lord Peter, was on YouTube -- I could not resist.
Contents:
Lord Peter Wimsey stories:
"The Image in the Mirror"
"The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey"
"The Queen's Square"
"The Necklace of Pearls"
Montague Egg stories:
"The Poisoned Dow '08"
"Sleuths on the Scent"
"Murder in the Morning"
"One Too Many"
"Murder at Pentecost"
"Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz"
Other ...more
Contents:
Lord Peter Wimsey stories:
"The Image in the Mirror"
"The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey"
"The Queen's Square"
"The Necklace of Pearls"
Montague Egg stories:
"The Poisoned Dow '08"
"Sleuths on the Scent"
"Murder in the Morning"
"One Too Many"
"Murder at Pentecost"
"Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz"
Other ...more
This is a collection of short stories - some featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, some featuring clever salesman Montague Egg and two crime short stories which don't feature either character. I particularly liked 'The Necklace of Pearls' in which Lord Peter uses his powers of observation to find a missing necklace and 'The Queen's Square' which also features events at a party.
Montague Egg, with his rhyming couplets, sunny temperament and excellent powers of observation, is a marvellous character. I alwa ...more
Montague Egg, with his rhyming couplets, sunny temperament and excellent powers of observation, is a marvellous character. I alwa ...more
Really enjoyed the Montague Egg and Peter Wimsey stories but the Montague Egg one with the cats was a bit too grim!
There are 4 Peter Wimsey, 6 Montague Egg and 2 stand-alones in this collection and all very good.
I really enjoyed "The Man Who Knew How" (stand-alone) and the very creepy "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey". ...more
I really enjoyed "The Man Who Knew How" (stand-alone) and the very creepy "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey". ...more
Absolutely loved it. Don't normally like short stories but these were very good. Think Montague Egg may have had a lot to do with it.
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DNF
Dec 28, 2015
Danielle
marked it as to-read
Oct 04, 2016
Jay-me (Janet)
rated it
liked it
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Sep 06, 2017
P. L.
marked it as to-read
Sep 25, 2017
Rachel Burke
marked it as want-to-buy
Aug 09, 2020
Jazzy Lemon
rated it
it was amazing
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