Hangman's Holiday

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Title:      Hangman's Holiday
Categories:      Lord Peter Wimsey
BookID:      770
Authors:      Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN-10(13):      9780060923969
Publisher:      Harper Perennial
Publication date:      09-01-1993
Number of pages:      320
Owner Email:      [email protected]
Language:      English
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In the annals of mystery writing, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg are among the most memorable detectives. Lord Peter—noble by birth, brilliant by nature—is a fly in the ointment of criminals across Britain, turning up whenever the police ask him to lend his quick wit and keen eye to an investigation. Montague Egg is a free-spirited figure, a traveling wine salesman with an unfortunate habit of stumbling over murder scenes. Both are inimitably charming, and neither has ever failed to catch his man.

In this collection of stories featuring the two detectives, plus a couple of bonus tales, the mystery maven’s evocation of England between the wars—and her chilling puzzles—remain as engaging as ever.

 

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"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood” Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

"How well he's read, to reason against reading!" Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene1

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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