"Murder Must Advertise"--Lord Peter Wimsey is called in to investigate a death at a respectable London advertising agency and finds cocaine, blackmail, wanton women, and a ...

Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is loved and remembered, most notably, for the creation of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. As this biography attests, Sayers was also ...

NYRB Classics presents 3 darkly humorous, atmospheric novellas of love and disappointment, set in a run-down London pub after WWI—from the author of the Hitchcock classics ...

A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, to international prominence. An ...

Appleby is called to St Anthony's College, where the President has been murdered. Scandal abounds when it becomes clear that the only people with any motive to murder him are ...