Ebook {Epub PDF} Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Published in , "Whose Body?" was Dorothy L. Sayer's debut novel, and Bill Peschel has provided hundreds of notes to guide the reader through Lord Peter's world, describing words, objects and ideas that were familiar to Sayers' readers but might be obscure or unknown today/5(36). 17 rows · In she published Whose Body?, a murder mystery novel featuring the fictional Lord Collections↙: 8. Years later, working as an advertising copywriter, Sayers began work on Whose Body?, a mystery novel featuring dapper detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Over the next two decades, Sayers published ten more Wimsey novels and several short stories, crafting a character whose complexity was unusual for the mystery novels of the time/5(K).

() by Dorothy L. Sayers. Posted on 8 April by Cavershamragu. It has been years since I read anything by Sayers and I thought it would be interesting to go back to the debut of Lord Peter, who initially is very much presented as belonging to the 'silly ass' school of detectives. The first novel in her renowned series of detective fiction, Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey, a bon vivant gentleman, whose hobby of playing detective is put to the test, as he is launched into his first official crime investigation. The mystery begins when the body of an unidentified man has been found. It's time to talk about Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. Published in , Whose Body? introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, one of the great detectives of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. All are welcome to the discussion!

― Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? In the debut mystery of Dorothy L. Sayers a hobbyist investigator, Lord Peter Wimsey, is on the case of an untimely appearance of a naked body in a bathtub. In this case Lord Peter will untangle and reveal the puzzling details surrounding this shocking mystery. Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), Title: Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Subject: Detective and mystery stories Subject: Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Subject. This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Whose Body?: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter Wimsey is headed for a book auction when he learns from his mother that a corpse has been found in the bathtub of a local architect.