The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
90-year-old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died -- and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was...
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90-year-old General Fendman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died -- and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780061043543 (0061043540)
ASIN: 61043540
Publish date: May 10th 1995
Publisher: HarperTorch
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Cozy Mystery,
Murder Mystery,
Golden Age Mystery
Series: Lord Peter Wimsey (#5)
Old General Fentiman is found dead at the Bellona Clubs fireplace. Everything points to a natural death, but something strikes Lord Peter odd about the body and he starts investigating. First off all let me say that I enjoyed this entry in the Lord Peter Wimsey series very much. But it took me som...
There is a question in my mind regarding this book. It is listed as #5 in Sayers’s famous detective series about Peter Wimsey, an amateur sleuth. But my copy of the book states its year of publication as 1921, which would make it #1 in the series. The quality of this novel seems to support such asse...
I did not have the attention span necessary to enjoy this to the fullest, but considering it objectively, I think that if I were in a better state of mind I would have really liked it. It's annoying to me that Wimsey, when he is being jocular, tends to cut off the ends of his gerunds, because then h...
I did not have the attention span necessary to enjoy this to the fullest, but considering it objectively, I think that if I were in a better state of mind I would have really liked it. It's annoying to me that Wimsey, when he is being jocular, tends to cut off the ends of his gerunds, because then h...
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