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Whose Body?: The First Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525565116)
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xThe first novel by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, in which she introduced her popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.
"[A] pure pleasure to read." --The New York Times Book Review A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. With the assistance of his valet, Bunter, a skilled amateur photographer, he quickly becomes convinced that the two cases are linked, despite the skepticism of the police. But what begins as an amusing puzzle takes on darker overtones, as Lord Peter wrestles with intrusive memories of his traumatic service in the trenches of World War I--and as his own life is endangered by the murderer he is about to unmask.
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN-10: 0525565116
ISBN-13: 9780525565116
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2019
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
"[A] pure pleasure to read." --The New York Times Book Review A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. With the assistance of his valet, Bunter, a skilled amateur photographer, he quickly becomes convinced that the two cases are linked, despite the skepticism of the police. But what begins as an amusing puzzle takes on darker overtones, as Lord Peter wrestles with intrusive memories of his traumatic service in the trenches of World War I--and as his own life is endangered by the murderer he is about to unmask.
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN-10: 0525565116
ISBN-13: 9780525565116
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2019
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
By Dorothy L. Sayers
xDOROTHY L. SAYERS (1893-1957) was an English poet, writer, and student of classical languages. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University and later worked as a copywriter at an ad agency. She was best known for her mystery novels and for her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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