Thought you was in a hurry, said the man, overcome with a sense of injury. D’you mind puttin’ back to where we came from? I’ve left the catalogue behind, said Lord Peter deprecatingly. The taxi man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into Lower Regent Street across the route of a 19 ’bus, a 38-B and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear. Oh, damn! said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. I liked the way the clues were all presented so that the reader could potentially identify the villain along with Lord Peter. I enjoyed the witty dialog even though I cringed at some of the stereotypes in the story written in 1923. While Parker and Lord Peter, with the able assistance of his man Bunter, follow the clues and unearth potential villains, we get to know this bright young aristocrat who looks at solving crimes as a hobby and who is a veteran of World War I who came home with flashbacks and nightmares. While Inspector Sugg is certain that the body in the bath and the missing financier are the same man, neither Parker nor Lord Peter believe that to be the case. Lord Peter's mother is a friend of the financier's wife which makes Peter eager to solve this problem too. A Jewish financier named Sir Reuben Levy has also disappeared. His mother brings him his new case when she tells him that a body was found in the bathtub of 'the little architect man who is doing the church roof.' Lord Peter is intrigued and seizes on the chance to solve the mystery.Then his friend Parker, who is a detective with Scotland Yard, brings him another puzzle. This is the first adventure of Lord Peter Wimsey, amateur detective.

As clues amass and become stranger and stranger, will Lord Peter be able to solve the mystery?įollow along with Lord Peter Wimsey in this new and improved edition of Dorothy Sayers’s original debut novel Whose Body? With a beautiful new cover and enhanced text and footnotes, this novel will be sure to leave any mystery or historical fiction fan begging for more. Meanwhile, another man, a financier, is reported missing, last having been seen leaving his house stark naked! Though originally thought to be two separate occurrences, as Peter investigates, he discovers the death and the disappearance are indeed related.

In this first book of Sayers’s series, Peter, an amateur sleuth, is intrigued and mystified by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bathtub of an architect. In this new edition of Dorothy Sayers’s Whose Body?, readers are introduced to the star of her mystery series, Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all”- The Guardian Praise for Dorothy Sayers: “Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers.

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