Lord Peter is a collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972 (ISBN 0-380-01694-X), it includes all the short stories about Lord Peter written by Dorothy L. Sayers, most of which were published elsewhere soon after they were written, and some related writings.
Contents
- Introduction, by James Sandoe
- Twelve stories which constituted 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
Sources
- Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories. New York: Harper & Row (ISBN 0060137886, ISBN 978-0-06-013787-8), 1972.
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