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Tag Archives: Lord Peter Wimsey
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
(Hodder 2003, originally published 1934) The Nine Tailors is, arguably, Sayers’ best detective novel. It doesn’t sprawl, like Gaudy Night, and, although concerned with a dead body and how it got that way, is also concerned with family, personal honour … Continue reading
Unnatural Death – Dorothy L. Sayers
(Hodder e-book 2003, originally published 1927) Lord Peter Wimsey has, by the time this book opens, already gained a reputation as an amateur sleuth – two characters each refer to events following on from Whose Body? and Clouds of Witness. … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Re-read, Read on my Kindle, Reviews
Tagged 1920s fiction, Dorothy L. Sayers, female friendships, inheritance, intestacy, Lord Peter Wimsey, murder, wills
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Whose Body? – Dorothy L. Sayers
(Rising Star Visionary Press e-book, originally published in 1923) Whose Body? is the first of Sayers’ detective novels to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman sleuth. When we first encounter him he is about to go to a sale of Lord … Continue reading
Have His Carcase – Dorothy L. Sayers
(Hodder & Stoughton 2003, originally published 1932) Harriet Vane, acquitted at a second trial of murdering her lover Philip Boyes (the story told in Strong Poison), is on a walking holiday in the south-west of England. She is a detective … Continue reading
Posted in Crime fiction, Fiction, Reviews
Tagged alibi, detection, Dorothy L. Sayers, gold, Lord Peter Wimsey, murder, razor, Russian aristocracy
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