How did a legal history series become so well known that even Lord Peter Wimsey owned a set?

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Books and sources:
—Strong Poison (1930) by Dorothy L. Sayers
—A Pin To See The Peep Show  (1934) by F Tennyson Jesse
—Portrait of Fryn: Biography of F.Tennyson Jesse  (1984) by Joanna Colenbrander
—The Anatomy of Murder (1936) by The Detection Club
—The Poisoned Chocolates Case  (1929) by Anthony Berkeley
—Malice Aforethought  (1931) by Francis Iles
—“Decline of the English Murder” (1946) by George Orwell
—Death at the Opera  (1934) by Gladys Mitchell

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