title: Lord Peter
text: # Lord Peter
  
  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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