The Solution of the Riddlesdale Mystery with a Report of the Trial of the Duke of Denver before the House of Lords for Murder...

The inimitable stories of Tong-king never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour...

Wimsey, Peter Death Bredon, D.S.O.; born 1890, 2nd son of Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, and of Honoria Lucasta, daughter of Francis Delagardie of Bellingham Manor, Hants. Educate...

Lord Peter Wimsey stretched himself luxuriously between the sheets provided by the Hôtel Meurice. After his exertions in the unraveling of the Battersea Mystery, he had followed Sir Julian Freke’s adv...

Some people hold that breakfast is the best meal of the day. Others, less robust, hold that it is the worst, and that, of all breakfasts in the week, Sunday morning breakfast is incomparably the worst...

“Hitherto,” said Lord Peter, as they picked their painful way through the little wood on the trail of Gent’s No. 10’s, “I have always maintained that those obliging criminals who strew their tracks wi...

Mr. Bunter brought Parker’s letter up to Lord Peter in bed on the Wednesday morning. The house was almost deserted, everybody having gone to attend the police-court proceedings at Northallerton. The t...

Mr. Parker sat disconsolate in a small appartement in the Rue St. Honoré. It was three o’clock in the afternoon. Paris was full of a subdued but cheerful autumn sunlight, but the room faced north, and...

On the opening day of the York Assizes, the Grand Jury brought in a true bill, against Gerald, Duke of Denver, for murder. Gerald, Duke of Denver, being accordingly produced in the court, the Judge af...

Hour after hour Mr. Parker sat waiting for his friend’s return. Again and again he went over the Riddlesdale Case, checking his notes here, amplifying them there, involving his tired brain in speculat...

Parker’s first impulse was to doubt his own sanity; his next, to doubt Lady Mary’s. Then, as the clouds rolled away from his brain, he decided that she was merely not speaking the truth. “Come, Lady M...

A party of four were assembled next morning at a very late breakfast, or very early lunch, in Lord Peter’s flat. Its most cheerful member, despite a throbbing shoulder and a splitting headache, was un...

Mr. Goyles was interviewed the next day at the police station. Mr. Murbles was present, and Mary insisted on coming. The young man began by blustering a little, but the solicitor’s dry manner made its...

Lord Peter broke his journey north at York, whither the Duke of Denver had been transferred after the Assizes, owing to the imminent closing-down of Northallerton Gaol. By dint of judicious persuasion...

“I tripped right into it,” said Wimsey’s voice steadily, out of the blackness. “One sinks very fast. You’d better not come near, or you’ll go too. We’ll yell a bit. I don’t think we can be very far fr...

“Thank God,” said Parker. “Well, that settles it.” “It does⁠—and yet again, it doesn’t,” retorted Lord Peter. He leaned back against the fat silk cushion in the sofa corner meditatively. “Of course, i...

The historic trial of the Duke of Denver for murder opened as soon as Parliament reassembled after the Christmas vacation. The papers had leaderettes on “Trial by his Peers,” by a Woman Barrister, and...

When Sir Impey Biggs rose to make his opening speech for the defense on the second day, it was observed that he looked somewhat worried⁠—a thing very unusual in him. His remarks were very brief, yet i...

Lord Peter peered out through the cold scurry of cloud. The thin struts of steel, incredibly fragile, swung slowly across the gleam and glint far below, where the wide country dizzied out and spread l...

The gale had blown itself out into a wonderful fresh day, with clear spaces of sky, and a high wind rolling boulders of cumulus down the blue slopes of air. The prisoner had been wrangling for an hour...

After the reading of Cathcart’s letter even the appearance of the prisoner in the witness-box came as an anticlimax. In the face of the Attorney-General’s cross-examination he maintained stoutly that ...

While the Attorney-General was engaged in the ungrateful task of trying to obscure what was not only plain, but agreeable to everybody’s feelings, Lord Peter hauled Parker off to a Lyons over the way,...

This report, though substantially the same as that read by Lord Peter in The Times, has been corrected, amplified and annotated from the shorthand report made at the time by Mr. Parker. ↩ From the new...