This book is the first edition in our country of detective stories by Dorothy Leigh Sayers, a contemporary of G.K. Chesterton and Agatha Christie. The image she created of the amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey in England, the writer’s homeland, has long taken pride of place among the famous heroes of the English detective story - Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot. This collection introduces the reader to another popular hero of the English classic detective story.Published and designed by the company “F. Greg", 1993