Whose Body?
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Subjects: Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character), 1890- -- Fiction
Description: <p><i>Whose Body?</i>, published in 1923, is the first in a long and very popular series of mystery novels written by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-l-sayers">Dorothy <abbr>L.</abbr> Sayers</a> and featuring her aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey.</p>
			<p>In this novel we are introduced to Wimsey, his imperturbable and multi-skilled butler Bunter, and his close friend Charles Parker of Scotland Yard as they come together to investigate an extremely mysterious incident: the naked body of a man, wearing a golden pince-nez, has been discovered in the bath of a bewildered tenant of a flat in Battersea. There’s a good deal of humor in the book, carefully balanced against the grim reality of murder.</p>
			<p><i>Whose Body?</i> was well-received on first publication, and provided a basis for Sayer’s successful career as a novelist. In sum, she wrote some eleven Wimsey novels as well as several short stories featuring the characters. Nevertheless, it appears that she herself felt that her translation of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dante-alighieri">Dante</a>’s <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dante-alighieri/the-divine-comedy/henry-wadsworth-longfellow"><i>Divine Comedy</i></a> was her greatest literary work.</p>