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Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. It was her debut novel, and the book in which she introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. In their review of crime novels (revised edn 1989), the US writers Barzun and Taylor call Whose Body? "a stunning first novel that disclosed the advent of a new star in the firmament, and one of the first magnitude. The episode of the bum in the bathtub, the character (and the name) of Si...

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses. The book's title derives from Hebrews, Chapter 12 verse 1: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run w...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This ...

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It was published under the title The Dawson Pedigree in the United States in 1928. According to James Brabazon in his Dorothy L Sayers: a biography (1981), Sayers drew her ingenious (and medically doubtful) murder method from her familiarity with motor engines, gained from her affair with a car mechanic and motor-bike enthusiast.In their review...

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It was published under the title The Dawson Pedigree in the United States in 1928. According to James Brabazon in his Dorothy L Sayers: a biography (1981), Sayers drew her ingenious (and medically doubtful) murder method from her familiarity with motor engines, gained from her affair with a car mechanic and motor-bike enthusiast. In their ...

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Lord Peter Wimsey and his friend Chief Inspector Parker are told about the death, in late 1925, of an elderly woman named Agatha Dawson who had been suffering from terminal cancer. She was being cared for by Mary Whittaker, her great-niece and a trained nurse. Miss Dawson had an extreme aversion to making a will, believing that Miss Whittaker, her only known relative, would naturally inherit everything. Wimsey is intrigued in spite of the fact...

First published in 1926, 'Clouds of Witness' is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, an English crime writer, poet, and student of classical and modern languages, best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars. As Lord Peter Wimsey appreciates his time in Corsica, he's brought back to actuality when all of the headlines declare that his brother, Gerald, has been charged with mu...

First published in 1926, 'Clouds of Witness' is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, an English crime writer, poet, and student of classical and modern languages, best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars. As Lord Peter Wimsey appreciates his time in Corsica, he's brought back to actuality when all of the headlines declare that his brother, Gerald, has been charged with mu...

Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver, has taken a shooting lodge at Riddlesdale in Yorkshire. At 3 o'clock one morning, Captain Denis Cathcart, the fiancé of Wimsey's sister Lady Mary, is found shot dead just outside the conservatory. Mary, trying to leave the house at 3 am for a reason she declines to explain, finds Denver kneeling over Cathcart's body. Suspicion falls on Denver, as the lethal bullet had come from his revolver and ...

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Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced the body is that of Sir Reuben Levy, a famous Jewish financier who disappeared the night before - waving aside objections that, as the body in the tub was uncirc...

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Der siebte Band der Lord Peter Wimsey Reihe in attraktiver Neuausstattung Harriet Vane entdeckt im Urlaub eine Leiche - da ist der Meisterdetektiv Lord Peter Wimsey sofort zur Stelle. Die Krimiautorin Harriet Vane müsste eigentlich mit den dunklen Seiten der Welt bestens vertraut sein - aber das schockiert sogar sie: Während des Urlaubs findet sie auf einem Felsen am Strand eine Leiche, die Kehle von einem Ohr bis zum anderen durchgeschnitte...

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