The third story from the mistress of the Golden Age mystery to feature the brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey When a wealthy woman comes to her untimely demise, Lord Peter Wimsey dives into the case, despite his lack of evidence or suspects. Just as Wimsey is getting familiar with the case, the woman’s maid becomes the next victim. With two victims and no suspects, Wimsey is at his wit’s end trying to prevent the next murder from happening. As senseless crime brings a dark shadow over this beautiful Hampshire village, will Wimsey be able to solve this case in time?
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893 – 1957) was a renowned English crime writer best known for her mysteries featuring the aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. The only child of an Oxford chaplain, she was one of the first women to receive a degree from that institution. A prolific writer of poems and plays as well as novels, she was a contemporary and friend of Agatha Christie, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.