Mr. Standfast

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0061043516

Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket..

Author	Erskine Childers
ISBN	0812966147

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands...

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0060913800

Lord Peter Wimsey, eccentric amateur sleuth.
I Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) 12 stories: The ..
1 Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers
2 Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question
3 Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will
4 Fantastic Horror of the Cat...

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W.E. Bowman

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought it inspired by the 1953 conquest of Everest. But Bowman had drawn on the flavour and tone of earlier...

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E.C.R. Lorac

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage. Hard work and rural...

Author	Wyndham Lewis
ISBN	0876857853

Tarr is a collision of everything new with everything old and it is a clash of intellectual and animal origins of man pictured in odd metaphoric strokes.
‘I am the panurgic-pessimist, drunken with the laughing-gas of the Abyss: I gaze upon squalor and idiocy, and the more I see them the more I like...