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Description

The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of amour   -- staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. "Here the modern... read more

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First Sentence

But if he thought the woman was being murdered-" "My dear charles," said the young man with the monocle, "it doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things.

Series

This is book 3 in the Lord Peter Wimsey series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Dorothy L. Sayers (Author)
 

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