| Lord Peter Wimsey, a disarmingly charming and formidable aristocrat, is one of the most beloved and enduring characters in English literature. And Ian Carmichael is the perfect actor to bring Lord Peter Wimsey gloriously to life. Here's a showcase of delightful Wimsey: wit, humor, suspense, and more. This is an outstanding short story collection featuring nine disturbing deaths, nine perplexing puzzles, and nine inimitable Wimsey solutions. Murder always leaves clues behind, and the debonair detective investigates a variety of peculiar pieces of evidence. In nine unabridged stories, Lord Peter Wimsey deals with such marvels as "The Man with Copper Fingers," "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag," "The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker," and "The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention," just to name a few. Wimsey's faithful manservant, Bunter, is at his side, and listeners delight in hearing about the Egotists' Club, to which Wimsey belongs, where you may talk about yourself as much as you like. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque, but absolutely bewitching side rarely exhibited in Wimsey's full-length adventures. Also available by Sayers from The Audio Partners:Thrones, DominationsUnnatural DeathStrong PoisonWhose Body?AUTHOR:Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born June 13, 1893, in Oxford, England, the only child of Rev. Henry Sayers, headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School. She was raised in a rectory, then attended Somerville College, Oxford University, from which she was one of the first women to graduate, in 1915 with first class honors in modern languages. She published her first novel in 1923, introducing the character of aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. She wrote 10 other novels and many short stories starring Lord Peter, as well as other detective stories. During the last 20 years of her life, she abandoned fiction writing in favor of playwriting, poetry, letters, essays, Anglican Christian scholarship and spiritual introspection, translations of medieval French works, including The Song of Roland, and, most notably, a new translation of Dante (after teaching herself old Italian). She died in 1957, at the age of 64, of coronary thrombosis, leaving her translation of Dante's third volume incomplete. Despite the plethora of her scholarly work, she is most well known as "the doyenne of the Golden Age of the Mystery."READER:Ian Carmichael was born in 1920 in Yorkshire, England. His lengthy acting career includes portrayals of Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC television in five different productions, as well as appearances in many other television series, stage productions, and feature films including Lucky Jim, The Lady Vanishes, and Heaven's Above.Ian Carmichael has also performed several other Audio Partners titles including Sayers' Thrones, Dominations, Unnatural Death, and Strong Poison."No crust has ever been more upper, no sleuth more of a hoot." - The Los Angeles Times, on Lord Peter Wimsey"Ian Carmichaelą [captures] Wimsey down to his pince-nez."-AudioFile "One of the greatest mystery writers of this century." + The Los Angeles Times, on Dorothy L. Sayers"Dorothy Sayers is 'in a class by herself.'" + Chicago Daily Tribune"Ian Carmichael plays Wimsey to such perfection that London's Daily Express said Sayers might have created Wimsey 'just so Carmichael could play him.'" - quoted from a recent flyer from Acorn Media, the company that is releasing the Lord Peter videos as broadcast on TV."The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries." - Chicago Tribune"Dorothy L. Sayers has a fine sense of humor and a genius for creating the most unexpected situations." -The Spectator"I admire her novelsą she has a great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and a wonderful eye for detail." - Ruth Rendell"Miss Sayers has done more to add literary tone to crime fiction than most of her contemporaries." - Ellery Queen |
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