Mary Jo decided to shame me into reading Dorothy Sayers. I've clearly spent far too long reading only P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. So at long last I've read a Lord Peter Wimsey story.I enjoyed the mystery; I thought she crafted the story well. And the characters were very interesting - I definite...
More interesting historically than a mystery, I guess. Given Lord Peter being oft mentioned as something of a romantic hero, it's a bit of a surprise that he strikes me as rather streotypically and almost flamingly gay for much of the book. Appearance of WW1 PTSD also interesting. Slightly creepy pr...
Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to help solve the mystery of the corpse found in the bathtub of one of his mother's friends. The unidentified victim is first believed to be that of a missing financier but Wimsey quickly determines that not to be the case. Now he has to mysteries to solve, where is the ...
A body is discovered and a man is missing. Superficially it appears to be the same case but the body turns out to not be the missing man. Lord Peter Wimsey knew this to be true from the start, but while the two police investigations diverge Lord Peter believes the two cases may still be connected in...
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey books, this is one of my favourites. It perfectly captures the postwar world--superficiality and despair perfectly balanced. Wimsey, in his introduction, is a likeable character, outwardly a prattling fool, but inwardly a shell-shocked, pain-wracked soul torturin...
Ok, Whose Body just wasn't my cup of tea. Initially I tried it in audiobook format, but couldn't get through it because I thought I didn't care for the narrator. So, I tried it in print. My apologies to Nadia May (the narrator of the audiobook). It wasn't her, it was Whose Body.This is a fine my...
This first volume of the letters of Dorothy L Sayers gave me much insight into the mind of one of my favourite novelists. Naturally enough, the letters written in childhood are not as interesting as the letters written later in life. But even as a child, Sayers exhibited the qualities she brought to...
Really interesting. Took me a little time to get into the story, and the end, when it came, seemed rather abrupt. I found the mystery itself quite fascinating, and not a tame as I'd expected. I appreciated the way the author hinted and suggested the really gruesome bits without having the be really ...
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