Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #01)

A Bourbon Street BookNewly ReissuedAfterword by John CurranDorothy Sayers' first mystery feature Lord Peter Wimsey newly reissued with a gorgeous new package and new afterword by John Curran

Lord Peter is intrigued by the sudden appearance of a naked dead body in the bath and investigates. A financier has also gone missing under strange circumstances and it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way. A hired man has just found a corpse in the bath in his flat: a body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. In the meantime, the financier has apparently disappeared into thin air from his own bedroom. Ignoring the clumsy efforts of the official investigator, Lord Peter starts his own enquiry. Can he solve this mysterious disappearance and even more mysterious murder?

Often called the greatest detective novelist of the Golden Age, Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University and later became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence and wit. She gave it a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any other writer of her age to make the genre intellectually respectable." - P.D. James"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times"Just the thing to get a person through a stowstorm." - New York Times"I admire her novels.She has a great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." - Ruth Rendell"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century." - Los Angeles Times