Mysteries Collection

This set gathers four Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels written between 1923 and 1937. In the first, a naked corpse in a Battersea bath draws the aristocratic amateur into a case of mistaken identity. In the second, the convenient death of an elderly woman leads Wimsey and the enquiry agent Miss Climpson through a chain of later killings. The third is a Scottish puzzle in which an artist is found dead and six fellow painters become suspects. The last follows Wimsey and Harriet Vane to a country-house honeymoon interrupted by a body in the cellar. The four books are independent cases, not one serial plot.

Bound in light blue cloth blocked with individual designs by Natacha Ledwidge. Pale blue slipcase with decoration and title. 28 full-page black & white illustrations and numerous tail pieces.