Lord Peter Views the Body

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Synopsis
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque, but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures. Lord Peter views the body in twelve tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outstanding collection. He deals with such marvels as the man with copper fingers, Uncle Meleager's missing will, the cat in the bag, the footsteps that ran, the stolen stomach, the man without a face. . . and with such clues as cyanide, jewels, a roast chicken, and a classic crossword puzzle. These stories contain twelve disturbing deaths, twelve perplexing puzzles-and twelve inimitable Wimsey solutions! "Dorothy L. Sayers has a fine sense of humor and a genius for creating the most unexpected situations." -The Spectator English spelling and lots of various kinds of dialect
Copyright:
1995

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
313 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780061043598
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
HarperCollins Publishers
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Mayrie ReNae
Proofread By:
Grandma Cindy
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

Reviews

4 out of 5

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As the long synopsis says, this book is a collection of 12 short detective stories starring Lord Peter Wimsey. The only reason I give it a 4 instead of a 5 is that some of the solutions one can guess ahead of time, and there is a lot of cockney and Scotch dialect which I find difficult to read. But the stories are fun, Lord Peter has a marvelous dry, sense of humor, and his deductive powers are excellent. This is fun, not scary, reading.