Books with title Whose Body?: The First Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

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

The first novel by one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century, in which she introduced her popular amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.A famous London financier vanishes from his bedroom, leaving no trace. Across town, a corpse is found in an architect's bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. The body is not that of the missing financier, so--whose body is it? When Lord Peter Wimsey is asked by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to help clear her architect of suspicion, he eagerly obliges. With the assistance of his valet, Bunter, a skilled amateur photographer, he quickly becomes convinced that the two cases are linked, despite the skepticism of the police. But what begins as an amusing puzzle takes on darker overtones, as Lord Peter wrestles with intrusive memories of his traumatic service in the trenches of World War I--and as his own life is endangered by the murderer he is about to unmask.

Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked corpse - wearing only a pair of pince-nez - in an architect's bathtub. Meanwhile, an unrelated banker is is reported missing, last seen leaving his house completely nude! As Peter investigates, he discovers the death and the disappearance are very related indeed. As clues amass and become more and more strange, will Lord Peter Wimsey be able to solve the mystery?Whose Body? is the first book in Dorothy L Sayers acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series.“Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers . . . Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all”—The Guardian

From Dorothy L. Sayers, “one of the greatest mystery story writers of the [twentieth] century” (Los Angeles Times), the first mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.A corpse has been found in the bath of an architect's flat, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. A financier has seemingly vanished into thin air from his bedroom.The ever-curious Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued by these odd events. Ignoring the clumsy efforts of the official investigator looking into the death, the aristocratic amateur sleuth, accompanied by his valet, Bunter, a skilled photographer, begins his own inquiry. The gentleman detective soon becomes convinced that the two cases are somehow linked. Now, he must uncover the connection—and the investigation quickly begins to bleed into his own life, stirring up dark memories of World War I that will have unexpected consequences for Wimsey and the faithful Bunter.

A naked body is found lying in the tub, 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 certain that the victim was a prominent financier. Lord Peter Wimsey knows better, but can he prove it? 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.

Amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked corpse - wearing only a pair of pince-nez - in an architect's bathtub. Meanwhile, an unrelated banker is is reported missing, last seen leaving his house completely nude! As Peter investigates, he discovers the death and the disappearance are very related indeed. As clues amass and become more and more strange, will Lord Peter Wimsey be able to solve the mystery?Whose Body? is the first book in Dorothy L Sayers acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series.“Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers . . . Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all”—The Guardian

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.