Lord Peter Views the Body
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2024
Language: eng
Subjects: Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Detective and mystery stories; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction; Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character), 1890- -- Fiction; Fiction; Mystery; Shorts
Description: <p><i>Lord Peter Views the Body</i> is the first collection of short stories by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-l-sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> featuring the aristocratic sleuth <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/lord-peter-wimsey">Lord Peter Wimsey</a>. The character of Wimsey had become so popular that Sayers started writing short stories about him, which were then published in magazines like <i>Pearson’s</i>.</p> <p>There are twelve stories in this collection about mysteries as varied as the consequences of several peculiar wills, to the hazardous breakup of a secret society.</p>