Whose Body - Peter Wimsey, Bk 1 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Dorothy L. Sayers, David Case (Narrator) The first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. The singular adventure of the man with the golden pince-nez. Enter the 1920s' Golden Age of Detection with this first novel from Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the debut of a dashing gentleman detective, one of the greatest characters of mystery fiction--Lord Peter Wimsey. — An unidentified n... more »aked corpse is found lying in a bathtub, a gold pince-nez perched before the sightless eyes. Telltale signs indicate that the face was shaved after death. Despite evidence to the contrary, the police are jumping to conclusions about the identities of the victim and the murderer. Lord Peter Wimsey steps in and, with the help of his friend Inspector Parker and his manservant Bunter, solves the mystery.
First published in 1923, Whose Body? established the disarmingly debonair, and somewhat foppish, Wimsey as one of the most enduring characters in English literature. It remains one of the most significant and most charming of the Golden Age mysteries. Audio Editions Mystery Masters are unabridged recordings of notable mysteries from the most highly-respected authors.
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