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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Vintage trade paperback. Covers are slightly darkening with age, and the corners have creases; pages are white, clean and unmarked. Has all the contents of the hard cover edition. Avon Equinox trade paperback, 1972 edition but 8th (undated) printing. ISBN: 9780380132270. 487 pages. 8vo (5.25" x 8") All the short Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, with an introduction, an essay, and a parody "Greedy Night." Contents: Introduction, by James Sandoe. Twelve stories which comprised 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.