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...
**Click on this book and see the BookLikes version of author(s) LOL bookshelves: winter-20102011, mystery-thriller, published-1935, poison Read from January 13 to 20, 2011 " Dorothy L Sayers' mystery with Ian Carmichael.
A question of a time of death which takes on an increasing number of twists.Sayers is definitely a writer where it's necessary to separate character opinion from author opinion. I particularly liked the clay sculptress and the many views of Ann Dorland. George Fentiman could go jump, though.
This was a very satisfying performance - like an old fashioned radio play (for all I know that is what it was). At some point I'd like to read the actual book but this will do for now.
I really love this book. For an unpretentious 1920s mystery novel, it really has a lot going on. There's the mystery itself, which has enough twists and turns to remain interesting. (I didn't guess the outcome, which is always a plus!). Then there is the social commentary: the plight of World War I ...
Dorothy L Sayers' mystery with Ian Carmichael.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b007jvmh/Lord_Peter_Wimsey_The_Unpleasantness_at_the_Bellona_Club_Armistice_Night/
This is my carry-with-me book these days. I haven't gotten far in, but I'm already fascinated by the problems of veterans from WWI, both PTSD and plain old financial difficulties.***Good twists, and some good jokes, and some interesting characters. Not as funny as Strong Poison, it's a little bitter...
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