I´m so glad I picked up the second book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. I enjoyed the first book, but I felt it was an odd one with, as far as I can remember, its emphasis on the forensics and Wimsey´s urge to talk incessantly. He still does that in the second book, but now I have realized that h...
‘Does it occur to you that what’s the matter with this case is that there are too many clues? Dozens of people with secrets and elopements bargin’ about all over the place—’ ‘I hate you, Peter,’ said Lady Mary. The Duke of Denver, Lord Peter's brother, has been accused of the murder of a house gue...
I have to say that I have very little sympathy for Cathcart. This was a very convoluted mystery. Peter Wimsey investigates the death of his sister's fiancé when the police blame his brother, aided by his friend Parker. Saying more than that would spoil things. It started it off pretty slow. I have...
Not the best in the series but not bad. In this installment of Lord Peter Wimsey’s detective series, Peter’s older brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murder. The Duke is strangely silent about his alibi although he insists that he is innocent. It’s up to Peter to get his brother out of the m...
When we lived in Pittsburgh, back in the dark ages, we didn't have a TV (much of the time, someone, in an act of pity, eventually gave us one). So, my spouse and I used to read to each other at night. We went through pretty much all of the Dorothy Sayers' books. I have fond memories of them. I also ...
The least successful of the Wimsey novels for me, this story has a general theme of how non-related events obscure the actual facts of the crime. The primary reasons this one doesn't work for me is that Wimsey spends way too much time not seeing the obvious, I generally didn't like the people invol...
Ultimately, this was disappointing. Not because it's a bad book - it's not. But because the previous one, Whose Body?, was so much more fun. The story revolves around Lord Peter's brother having been accused of murder - in fact the murder of their sister's fiance. Most of the story takes place in th...
I'm having trouble deciding how many stars to give this book. I read it first when I was thirteen and quite possibly haven't read it since. It was my first Sayers and I fell hard for Peter. It strikes me now that while the characters and dialogue are delicious, the plot and the laying out of the ...
dashing peter wimsey dashes into some more dashing adventures. he's one of literature's greatest detectives. but just as enjoyable is his faithful manservant bunter. peter runs around figuring things out with his clever, clever mind but it is bunter who often gets his hands dirty with rather agreeab...
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