Whose Body? - (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) by Dorothy L Sayers (Paperback)

About the Book

Originally published: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923.

Book Synopsis

From Dorothy L. Sayers, "one of the greatest mystery story writers of the [twentieth] century" (Los Angeles Times), the first mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

A corpse has been found in the bath of an architect's flat, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. A financier has seemingly vanished into thin air from his bedroom.

The ever-curious Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued by these odd events. Ignoring the clumsy efforts of the official investigator looking into the death, the aristocratic amateur sleuth, accompanied by his valet, Bunter, a skilled photographer, begins his own inquiry. The gentleman detective soon becomes convinced that the two cases are somehow linked. Now, he must uncover the connection--and the investigation quickly begins to bleed into his own life, stirring up dark memories of World War I that will have unexpected consequences for Wimsey and the faithful Bunter.

Review Quotes

"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times
"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence and wit. She gave it a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any other writer of her age to make the genre intellectually respectable." - P.D. James
"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times
"Just the thing to get a person through a stowstorm." - New York Times
"I admire her novels...She has a great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." - Ruth Rendell