Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
 
Striding Folly: Complete & Unabridged (Mini-CABs)
  
See 1 customer image
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.

Striding Folly: Complete & Unabridged (Mini-CABs) [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Dorothy L. Sayers (Author), Ian Carmichael (Reader)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Available from these sellers.


6 used from £2.86
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Paperback (New Impression) £6.99 £4.48 40 used & new from £0.01
Audio CD (Audiobook) £13.90 £11.15 10 used & new from £9.52
Audio Cassette (Audiobook) 2 used & new from £27.99

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Download your favourite books to your ipod or mp3 player and save up to 80% on more than 40,000 titles at Audible.co.uk.


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Hangman's Holiday: Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

Hangman's Holiday: Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

by Dorothy L Sayers
4.5 out of 5 stars (4)  £4.93
In the Teeth of the Evidence (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

In the Teeth of the Evidence (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)

by Dorothy L Sayers
4.0 out of 5 stars (2)  £4.94
The Documents in the Case

The Documents in the Case

by Dorothy L Sayers
4.0 out of 5 stars (3)  £5.52
Unnatural Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

Unnatural Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

by Dorothy L Sayers
3.8 out of 5 stars (6)  £4.92
Lord Peter Views the Body: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

Lord Peter Views the Body: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

by Dorothy L Sayers
4.3 out of 5 stars (3)  £5.99
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: Chivers Audio Books (April 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0745142656
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745142654
  • Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 278,925 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #15 in  Books > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery > Authors, A-Z > S > Sayers, Dorothy L.
    #51 in  Books > Audio Cassettes > Fiction > Unabridged
    #85 in  Books > Audio Cassettes > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

Lord Peter Wimsey’s last three baffling cases all demonstrate his unique detction skills at their most spectacular.

The engima of a house numbered thirteen in a street of even numbers; an indignant child accused of theft, a dream about a game of chess that uncovers the true story behind a violent death. Each of the stories introduces a different side of the twentieth century’s most ingenious detective hero. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
(4)
(4)
(4)
(3)
(1)
(1)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

Striding Folly: Complete & Unabridged (Mini-CABs)
58% buy the item featured on this page:
Striding Folly: Complete & Unabridged (Mini-CABs) 3.0 out of 5 stars (4)
The Nine Tailors: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
11% buy
The Nine Tailors: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) 4.6 out of 5 stars (11)
£5.95
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
11% buy
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery 3.8 out of 5 stars (6)
£4.98
Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsley Mystery (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
10% buy
Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsley Mystery (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) 4.1 out of 5 stars (19)
£5.96
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

4 Reviews
5 star:
 (2)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (2)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
3.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing collection of slight short stories., 28 May 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Striding Folly (Crime Club) (Paperback)
Dorothy L Sayers full length mystery novels are very good - beautifully written and strong on character, detail, humour and with ingenious plots. Her short stories are however disappointing, and this collection of three particularly so. Each of them is slight, with the middle one, The Haunted Policeman, being the best of a poor bunch. The attempt at a different style in first story is misguided, and the final story is almost non-existent, centring on life in the Wimsey household. If readers are wanting to try her short stories, the collection of ten in Lord Peter Views The Body is much stronger, though variable. In this, written at the beginning of her career, there is the sense that she is feeling her way into the genre; the mysteries are too weak to sustain a full novel, but some stories have interesting twists. In Striding Folly, the sense is much more of her running out of ideas or perhaps energy. One cautionary note for readers: the introduction gives away the plot of some Sayers other novels. For those interested in trying Sayers' work for the first time, I strongly recommend choosing a full length novel - Have His Carcass, Murder Must Advertise and Gaudy Night are all excellent.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of the three final Peter Wimsey tales..., 3 May 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Striding Folly (Crime Club) (Paperback)
A collection of the three final Peter Wimsey tales, 'Striding Folly' contains the title story, a work which revolves around a curious death during a game of chess, seemingly foretold in a dream, and 'The Haunted Policeman', which takes place on the eve of the birth of Peter and Harriet's first child, and revolves around a policeman accused of drunkeness by his Sergeant, despite the fact that he was completely sober. The final tale, 'Talboys', is a lightly amusing and whimsical account of a mysterious theft of peaches belonging to Mr Puffett (whom we have previously seen clearing a chimney, and in other capacities, in 'Busman's Honeymoon'), in which we have a brief meeting with the Wimseys en famille, now with three sons, Bredon, Roger, and Paul. Bunter and a snake called Cuthbert also appear to round out this delightful tale, the last of the Wimsey canon (bar 'Thrones, Dominations', should you wish to count it). Personally, I find 'Talboys' to be one of the most deft pieces of humour that I have ever had the pleasure to read, although it may not appeal to those who are devoted to stories of pure detection.

Prefaced by an essay by Janet Hitchman, 'Lord Peter Wimsey and His Creator', this volume may not be the ideal introduction to Wimsey - for that, it would be best to begin at the proverbial beginning, with 'Whose Body?'. However, for the initiated, it is indispensible, and wins five stars on the individual strengths of each story alone.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No


 
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The final adventures of Lord Peter, 24 May 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: Striding Folly (Crime Club) (Paperback)
This unabridged audio edition is read by Ian Carmichael, who portrayed Lord Peter in quite a few BBC TV adaptations in the 1970s, such as THE NINE TAILORS, although not STRONG POISON or the other stories of Lord Peter's courtship of Harriet Vane, which were portrayed on TV by Edward Petherbridge. Both men are excellent narrators, in any case, with a fine command of accents, so any reading by either of them is good. These 3 stories otherwise appear only in the omnibus collection of all the Wimsey stories, LORD PETER.

"Striding Folly" - When Mr. Creech bought the Striding property on the death of the old squire, only Mr. Mellilow really accepted him - believing that Creech meant well despite his unfortunate manner, and happy that Creech could give him a weekly game of chess. Then Creech proposed to sell much of Striding to the electric company and bring in development -"which, to Mr. Mellilow, was another name for the Devil." Soon after breaking the news to Mellilow, Creech failed to turn up for their game - but a stranger did, leaving him with an alibi for the murder of Creech that no one would believe, except that friend of the Chief Constable's...

"The Haunted Policeman" - Occurs after THRONES, DOMINATIONS, and opens just as Lord Peter is being presented with his first-born son, as yet unnamed in this story. Poor old Peter has had the fright of his life, although Harriet was never in any danger, so he's too keyed up to sleep, and is standing on his own front doorstep smoking at 3 in the morning when a young constable, looking very distressed, passes by.

"Talboys" - The last Lord Peter story, with a 'crime' suitable to the small-town setting. The boy born in the previous story, Bredon (one of Peter's middle names), opens the story with a confession: he just took some of the peaches one of the neighbours was preparing to show. (He thought he'd better confess quick before more serious retribution caught up with him, but the neighbour wasn't much upset). A very tiresome spinster who was wished on the household as a guest by the Duchess takes the opportunity to tell Peter and Harriet how they're raising their 3 young sons in the wrong way, after watching Peter handle the incident. Bredon has sense enough not to value her championship - for one thing, in the Wimsey household, when a kid is punished that's the end of the matter.

Soon afterward, when the owner of the peaches drops by a second time to report that *all* of them have now been stolen off his tree, the Wimseys take Bredon's word that he didn't do it (although the spinster assumes he's lying). Peter takes on the investigation not out of any doubt, but because the peach-owner is an old friend and it's an interesting little problem that's fallen into his lap.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars A cynical rip-off - avoid!
I give way to no-one in my admiration of DLS. But this book is a cynical rip-off by the publishers, New English Library. Read more
Published 12 months ago by NickR

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject











i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.