Whose Body? Contributor(s): Sayers, Dorothy L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1684223490 ISBN-13: 9781684223497 Publisher: Martino Fine Books OUR PRICE: $5.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Classics |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.52 lbs) 148 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. A naked body is discovered in the bathroom of a London architect's apartment. Is it Sir Reuben Levy, the well-known financier who recently disappeared? Or is it a stiff dragged from the dissecting rooms of St. Luke's Hospital? Lord Peter Wimsey must unravel the tangled threads that lead from a prostitute, to a well-known surgeon, and to a mysterious reunion at a London night-club. In Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. In their review of crime novels Barzun and Taylor call Whose Body? "a stunning first novel that disclosed the advent of a new star in the firmament, and one of the first magnitude. The episode of the bum in the bathtub, the character (and the name) of Sir Julian Freke, the detection, and the possibilities in Peter Wimsey are so many signs of genius about to erupt". |