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by Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) Sayers · 1893–1957
"Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel" by Dorothy L. Sayers is a mystery novel published in 1923. When an architect discovers a naked corpse wearing only pince-nez spectacles in his London bathtub, the amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey takes on the puzzling case. The body appears connected to the mysterious disappearance of financier Sir Reuben Levy, but evidence suggests otherwise. As Wimsey investigates alongside Inspector Parker, the trail leads to a teaching hospital and a respected surgeon, where secrets darker than anyone imagined await discovery.
Summary generated automatically by Project Gutenberg.
- Read time
- 267 min
- Words
- 58,842
- Chapters
- 20
- Paragraphs
- 1,699
- Price
- Free
- Detective and mystery stories
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
- Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character), 1890- -- Fiction
“One was caught in the gutter just above Thipps’s bathroom window, another in a crack of the stone parapet just over it, and the rest came from the chimney-stack behind, where they had caught in an iron stanchion.
„Einer war in der Rinne direkt über Thipps’ Badezimmerfenster hängengeblieben, einer in einer Fuge des Steinbrüstungsmauerwerks direkt darüber, und der Rest stammte vom Schornsteinkamin dahinter, wo sie sich in einem eisernen Stützpfosten verfangen hatten.
What do you make of them?”
Was hältst du davon?“
About the author
Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) Sayers1893–1957
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English writer born in 1893 and died in 1957.
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Book details
- Original language
- English
- Translation
- German, machine translation
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #58820
- Licence
- Public domain in the United States
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