Whose Body?: The Singular Adventure of the Man with the Golden Pince-Nez: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Contributor(s): Sayers, Dorothy L. (Author), Shaikh, Madeeha |
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ISBN: 1635916321 ISBN-13: 9781635916324 Publisher: Bankshott Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Private Investigators |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 228 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced the body is that of Sir Reuben Levy, a famous Jewish financier who disappeared the night before - waving aside objections that, as the body in the tub was uncircumcised, it couldn't be Sir Reuben - and promptly arrests Thipps and his maid for murder. Luckily for both of them, the Dowager Duchess of Denver takes an interest, and asks her son, Lord Peter Wimsey, to help out. Working with his old friend Detective Charles Parker of Scotland Yard, who's been assigned to the Levy case, Lord Peter sets himself to the task of figuring out who the dead man in the bathtub is. He soon grows to suspect that the two cases are connected in a particularly sinister way . . . . Lord Peter soon finds himself on the trail of a murderer of a particularly cunning sort, fresh from the perpetration of a shockingly cold-blooded and horrific crime. |