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  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Audio Cassette (Chivers Audio Books, May 1, 1988)
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  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Hardcover (Gollancz, Sept. 3, 1949)
    Whose Body?
  • Whose Body? with eBook

    Dorothy L. Sayers, Roe Kendall

    (Tantor Audio, March 9, 2009)
    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. 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.
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers, Flo Gibson, Audio Book Contractors, Inc.

    Audiobook (Audio Book Contractors, Inc., March 18, 2019)
    Lord Peter Wimsey discovers the body of a man wearing nothing but a gold pince nez in the bathtub of a nearby flat. His ensuing investigation introduces us to a variety of suspicious characters, his witty repartee, and his mind-boggling deductive reasoning.
  • Whose body?

    Dorothy L Sayers

    Hardcover (W Collins Sons and Co, Sept. 3, 1923)
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  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Paperback (Independently published, March 26, 2020)
    Whose Body? is a mystery novel written by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1923. In this novel the writer introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. 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.
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Paperback (Independently published, July 13, 2020)
    There’s a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth. Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known financier is in some way connected to the body in the bathroom. But discovering exactly which way they’re related leads the amateur detective on a merry chase. Written by a master of the detective story, this atmospheric tale abounds in the cozy delights of an English murder mystery. Dorothy L. Sayers ranks with Agatha Christie as a defining author of the genre.
  • Whose Body

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Sept. 5, 2017)
    Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way.
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Paperback (Martino Fine Books, May 27, 2019)
    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".
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers, Roe Kendall

    Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Tantor Media Inc, Jan. 1, 2009)
    Meet Lord Peter Wimsey, stylish, eccentric, seeming a fool, but in fact one of the great English detectives. The discovery of a body in a bathtub wearing only a pair of spectacles, launches a motley set of sleuths and suspects toward a ghastly conclusion.
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers, Mark Meadows, Dreamscape Media, LLC

    Audiobook (Dreamscape Media, LLC, Jan. 9, 2019)
    After a corpse wearing pince-nez glasses is found in a bathtub, Lord Peter Wimsey undertakes the case and investigates the deed privately. But determining whether the corpse belongs to a well-known banker or a group of mischief-making medical students is just the beginning of this tangled mystery plot. This atmospheric novel put Dorothy L. Sayers in the ranks with Agatha Christie as a mystery writer nonpareil.
  • Whose Body?

    Dorothy L. Sayers, Graham Scott, Spoken Realms

    Audiobook (Spoken Realms, July 29, 2019)
    Whose Body? By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott The great financier, Sir Reuben Levy, disappears from his Park Lane home on a November night, apparently without a stitch of clothing, or even his spectacles. On the same night in a suburban bathroom in Battersea, an unknown body bearing a superficial resemblance to Sir Reuben is discovered, reclining in the bath tub, unseasonably dressed in nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Lord Peter Wimsey is asked to look into the case of the Battersea body, and joins forces with his friend Inspector Charles Parker of Scotland Yard, who is charged with investigating the Levy disappearance. But are the two case connected by more than the friendship of the two detectives? Lord Peter gradually uncovers an old resentment, leading to a gruesome crime....