Lord Peter Wimsey Books in Order

A collection containing the final three Lord Peter Wimsey stories. It includes a dream-led mystery, a case involving Peter as a new father, and a lighthearted puzzle where the Wimsey children are accused of stealing peaches.

A collection of seventeen stories, including two Wimsey adventures and several featuring Montague Egg. The title story involves a dentist, a car fire, and a question of identity that only dental records—and Peter Wimsey—can resolve.

Peter and Harriet's quiet honeymoon at a country farmhouse is interrupted when the previous owner is found dead in the cellar. Balancing new marriage dynamics with a murder investigation, the couple must work together to solve the crime without letting it destroy their happiness.

Harriet Vane returns to her Oxford college for a reunion, only to find the academic peace shattered by a poison-pen campaign and vandalism. As the threats escalate, Harriet must confront her own past and ask Lord Peter Wimsey for help in a case that threatens the college's reputation.

Stranded in the fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve, Peter helps ring a nine-hour peal of church bells. When a body is later found in a grave, he must unravel a mystery rooted in a twenty-year-old theft and the deadly power of the bells themselves.

When a copywriter dies in a suspicious accident, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover at Pym’s Publicity agency as "Death Bredon." Between writing ad copy for Whifflets cigarettes, he uncovers a drug-smuggling ring hidden behind the glossy facade of the advertising world.

A collection of short mystery stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the wine salesman sleuth Montague Egg. The tales range from a poisoning in a pantry to a clever cipher, showcasing Sayers' mastery of the short puzzle format.

On a walking holiday, Harriet Vane discovers a body on a lonely rock on the beach. By the time she brings help, the tide has washed the corpse away. She teams up with Lord Peter Wimsey to solve the mystery using the few clues she managed to photograph.

In a Scottish artists' colony, a quarrelsome painter is found dead. It looks like an accident, but Wimsey suspects murder. With six suspects who all hated the victim, Peter must untangle complex train timetables and artistic forgeries to identify the one guilty party.

Mystery writer Harriet Vane is on trial for the murder of her former lover, who died of arsenic poisoning. Convinced of her innocence, Lord Peter Wimsey races against time to find the real killer and save the woman he has instantly fallen in love with.

On Armistice Day, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is found dead in his armchair at the Bellona Club. But when it turns out his wealthy sister died the same morning, the exact time of the General's death becomes a matter of a massive inheritance—and murder.

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. From a man with copper fingers to a headless body and a diamond puzzle, these tales showcase Wimsey's ingenuity in solving varied and bizarre crimes.

A wealthy elderly woman dies with no apparent cause, but a young doctor suspects foul play. Lord Peter Wimsey investigates a murder that seems to have left no trace, uncovering a clever and technically brilliant method of killing that defies standard detection.

Peter’s brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of shooting his sister’s fiancé at a family shooting lodge. With the Duke refusing to defend himself, Peter must navigate a web of family secrets and travel as far as New York to clear his brother's name before the trial in the House of Lords.

A mild-mannered architect finds a naked body in his bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Meanwhile, a famous financier has vanished. Lord Peter Wimsey takes on his first major case to discover if—and how—these two bizarre puzzles are connected.