Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey in these consummate BBC radio dramatisations of Dorothy L Sayers’ much-loved mysteries

Elegant, erudite and sharp-witted, aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey featured in numerous novels and short tales by ‘Queen of Crime’ Dorothy L Sayers. These full-cast adaptations – initial broadcast on BBC radio between 1975 and 1981- are enjoyed by mystery supporters all around the world.

In The Unpleasantness on the Bellona Golf club, when General Fentiman is found lifeless at his about Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations club, Wimsey suspects bad play. Could he have been murdered for his money?

Solid Poison introduces Harriet Vane – a crime novelist in trial for murdering her lover. Wimsey knows Harriet can be no femme fatale, but an innocent sufferer embroiled within a diabolical plot…

Five Red Herrings sees Peter faced with six men, all of whom possess a purpose for getting rid of argumentative Scottish painter Sandy Campbell. But who was the culprit?

In Have His Carcase, when Harriet Vane finds a body over the beach along with his throat trim, Lord Peter must calculate whether it had been murder or suicide.

These traditional dramas also feature Peter Jones, Joan Hickson, Miriam Margolyes and Warren Clarke.