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Title	:	Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey #1)
Author	:	Dorothy L. Sayers
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 212 pages
Published	:	July 11th 1995 by HarperTorch (first published 1923)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics. Thriller. Mystery Thriller

Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey #1) Paperback | Pages: 212 pages

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The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.

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Original Title:	Whose Body?
ISBN:	0061043575 (ISBN13: 9780061043574)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Lord Peter Wimsey #1, Lord Peter Wimsey Chronological
Characters:	Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter, The Honorable Freddy Arbuthnot, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Sir Reuben Levy, Rachel Levy, Sir Julian Freke, Inspector Sugg, Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver
Setting:	London, England,1923(United Kingdom) Salisbury, England,1923

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Mr. Thipps goes to have his morning bath, only to find the corpse of a naked man wearing only a pince nez in the tub. A first glance, the corpse appears to be that of Lord Levy, a Jewish financier. Only things aren't always as they seem. Fortunately, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case...I really liked this one. I have to believe Dorothy Sayers was influenced by P.G. Wodehouse at least a little bit. Lord Peter Wimsey could easily be a Wodehouse character. He's a short pompous British aristocrat,

Oh, I feel so badly how much I disliked this book. As a mystery genre fan and avid reader of Agatha Christie, I thought for sure I would enjoy the much-reccomended Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers. But alas, I found myself bored and annoyed by the personalities of the characters.The plot seems interesting enough: a random body of a man wearing nothing but a pair of glasses shows up in a bathtub. Who is he and how did it get there? Book collector Peter Wimsey is on the case! To be

3.5* Challenge from the Reading the Detectives Group. Read at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/wome... (I don't enjoy reading books online, but the experience improved when I sat at my desk & used a mouse!)A most enjoyable romp although motivation, plot & method were lacking. What this book had in spades were appealing characters & sparkling dialogue - I especially liked the letter manservant Bunter sent to Lord Peter! A lot of the language & wit reminded me of Wodehouse - a

3 starsWhose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers is the first book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series.There are two mysteries in this book. One is of a corpse found naked in the bathtub of a fussy architects house. The other involves a financier disappearing from his bedroom one night, never to be seen again.Both were decent mysteries and I enjoyed how it was all solved at the end. I didnt feel like this book was ground breaking though, and there was no tension.It felt like a dulled down Agatha Christie

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 mystery, certainly nothing wrong with it, and I'm sure it appeals to a lot of people. The dialogue was witty and sharp. But there was just so much dialogue. The story moved via the conversations of the

I discovered Dorothy L. Sayers through home-schooling as the author of The Lost Tools of Learning. It was only after I read that, and learned she was a contemporary and friend of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, that I stumbled on her original claim to fameLord Peter Wimsey. Whose Body? is the first of the eleven Lord Peter mysteries she wrote in her lifetime. Each one gets progressively better. I'm stretching it to give this four starsit's not so good as her later ones, but I don't want to put

What a complete and utter mess of a book! I had been informed by many reliable sources (including Lucy Worsley in her documentary A Very British Murder) that Sayers was even better than Christie where murder mysteries are concerned. They are all wrong!This mystery has an intriguing enough premise - a naked dead body is found in the home of a harmless man that everyone automatically knew was not the murderer because well, the Wimseys (mother and son) said so! Lord Wimsey is called on to