Dorothy L. Sayer’s first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In Wimsey’s first case, he undertakes an investigation to discover the identity and the murderer of a man who is found in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. An ingenious and intricate plot follows that essentially announced the advent of a new star in the firmament of detective story writing, and one of the first magnitude. This unique edition includes The Strand Magazine article, ‘The Great Detectives: Lord Peter Wimsey’ by Chris Willis and an author biography.
Table of Content
Dorothy L. Sayers i
CHAPTER I 1
CHAPTER II 12
CHAPTER III 27
CHAPTER IV 38
CHAPTER V 57
CHAPTER VI 77
CHAPTER VII 100
CHAPTER VIII 114
CHAPTER IX 121
CHAPTER X 132
CHAPTER XI 148
CHAPTER XII 158
CHAPTER XIII 165
The Great Detectives: Lord Peter Wimsey 181
About the author
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. Her blue-blooded sleuth romps cheerfully through 1920s and 1930s high society, solving mysteries among the upper classes of Belgravia and the artistic Bohemians of Bloomsbury. Arguably the best of the leading ‘Golden Age’ crime writers, Sayers once stated that her goal in writing detective fiction was to elevate the mystery novel into a novel of manners. Sayers was also a distinguished theologian and classical scholar, whose translations of Dante are still in print today.
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