Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first outing in Whose Body? with Sayers creating a character that can grow and develop through future stories. A great murder mystery with wonderful characters and a plot to keep you guessing.
January 2010 Guest Editor Diana Gabaldon on DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Mistress of dialogue, character, humor and social nuance. From her, I learned that dialogue is the single most defining trait of character, and just how much you can do with accent, idiom, and dialect. Also, that a character is embedded in his or her social matrix, and that matrix is as important as the individual's personal characteristics.
A dead body, a missing financier, and the hasty trading of Peruvian oil shares set Lord Peter Wimsey and his associate, Inspector Parker, on the hunt to piece these seemingly unrelated pieces evidence together. But in the process, Wimsey and Peter discover that they have placed their own lives in jeopardy.Dorothy Sayers's Whose Body? introduced the immensely popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, as well as his friend, Inspector Parker, and his mother, the formidable Dowager Duchess.
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A dead body, a missing financier, and the hasty trading of Peruvian oil shares set Lord Peter Wimsey and his associate, Inspector Parker, on the hunt to piece these seemingly unrelated pieces evidence together. But in the process, Wimsey and Peter discover that they have placed their own lives in jeopardy.Dorothy Sayers's Whose Body? introduced the immensely popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, as well as his friend, Inspector Parker, and his mother, the formidable Dowager Duchess.
Whose Body? features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Whose Body? was written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by HarperCollins Canada
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