Dorothy L. Sayers

"A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. With the assistance of his valet, Bunter, a skilled amateur photographer,...

"When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some scandalous behavior involving his employees. Posing as a new copywriter, Wimsey discovers that Dean was part of an unsavory crowd at Pym's whose recreational habits link them to the criminal underworld....

"Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiance died in the manner prescribed in one fo her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to prove her innocent--as deteremined as he was to make her his wife." -- back cover.

While on their honeymoon in the county, Lord Peter and Harriet Vane get involved in a baffling murder mystery. A man was found dead with "not a spot of blood on his smashed skull" and six hundred pounds in his pocket. -- adapted from back jacket.