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Renowned English novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic, Dorothy L. Sayers’s “Whose Body?” was first published in 1923. In this novel we are introduced to her most famous character, the aristocratic amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Lord Wimsey has developed an interest in solving crimes and joins in to help his friend Inspector Charles Parker and the official investigation into the disappearance of a famous financier. A naked body is discovered in the bathtub of a nearby flat and it seems to be the missing businessman, but Lord Wimsey cleverly deducts that it is a deceptive look-alike and resolves to get to the bottom of the disappearance and find the connection to the body. In this entertaining and suspenseful mystery set in London after World War I, Lord Wimsey uses his intelligence and intuition to solve the case and escape murder at the hands of the suspect. “Whose Body?” was a commercial and critical success upon its publication and Sayers would go on to write many more thrilling mysteries set in London in the exciting years before World War II and starring her beloved Lord Wimsey and his brilliant mind.
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The very first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel finds the debonaire sleuth investigating the strange case of the corpse in the bathtub…who may not be who he seems!
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Lord Peter Wimsey DSO is the hero of a series of detective novels and stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and in a few books by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.<P> Included are 11 novels and 25 stories.<P> NOVELS:<BR> WHOSE BODY? (1923) CLOUDS OF WITNESS (1926) THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB (1928) STRONG POISON (1930) THE FIVE RED HERRINGS (1931) GAUDY NIGHT (1931) HAVE HIS CARCASE (1932) MURDER MUST ADVERTISE (1933) THE NINE TAILORS (1934) BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON (1937) STRIDING FOLLY (1939)<P> SHORT STORIES:<BR> THE HAUNTED POLICEMAN<BR> THE IMAGE IN THE MIRROR<BR> THE INCREDIBLE ELOPEMENT OF LORD PETER WIMSEY<BR> THE QUEEN'S SQUARE<BR> THE NECKLACE OF PEARLS<BR> THE MAN WHO KNEW HOW<BR> THE FOUNTAIN PLAYS<BR> THE ABOMINABLE HISTORY OF THE MAN WITH COPPER FINGERS<BR> THE ENTERTAINING EPISODE OF THE ARTICLE IN QUESTION<BR> THE FASCINATING PROBLEM OF UNCLE MELEAGER'S WILL<BR> THE FANTASTIC HORROR OF THE CAT IN THE BAG<BR> THE UNPRINCIPLED AFFAIR OF THE PRACTICAL JOKER<BR> THE UNDIGNIFIED MELODRAMA OF THE BONE OF CONTENTION<BR> THE VINDICTIVE STORY OF THE FOOTSTEPS THAT RAN<BR> THE BIBULOUS BUSINESS OF A MATTER OF TASTE<BR> THE LEARNED ADVENTURE OF THE DRAGON'S HEAD<BR> THE PISCATORIAL FARCE OF THE STOLEN STOMACH<BR> THE UNSOLVED PUZZLE OF THE MAN WITH NO FACE<BR> THE ADVENTUROUS EXPLOIT OF THE CAVE OF ALI BABA<BR> THE POISONED DOW '08<BR> SLEUTHS ON THE SCENT<BR> MURDER IN THE MORNING<BR> ONE TOO MANY<BR> MURDER AT PENTECOST<BR> MAHER-SHALAL-HASHBAZ<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 350+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
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There's a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth. Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known financier is in some way connected to the body in the bathroom. But discovering exactly which way they're related leads the amateur detective on a merry chase. Written by a master of the detective story, this atmospheric tale abounds in the cozy delights of an English murder mystery. Dorothy L. Sayers ranks with Agatha Christie as a defining author of the genre. A novelist, essayist, and medieval scholar, Sayers was among the first women to receive an Oxford degree, and her translations of Dante remain in wide circulation. This novel marks the debut of her most popular creation, Lord Peter Wimsey, whose continuing adventures unfold amid the lively world of upper-crust British society in the 1920s.
