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Carregando... Whose Body? (1925)de Dorothy L. Sayers
  
Favorite Series (9) » 19 mais Books Read in 2018 (136) Books Read in 2014 (105) Female Author (169) Books Read in 2019 (149) British Mystery (9) Top Five Books of 2013 (1,301) Books Read in 2017 (766) Books Read in 2020 (3,292) the L2go shelf (15) First Novels (153) Books Set in London (17) Books on my Kindle (76) Books About Murder (35) Detective Stories (19) Murder Mysteries (42) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I'll try another. Eventually.  mullinstreetzoo | Feb 12, 2021 |  I enjoyed this mystery set in the 1920's. I liked Lord Peter Wimsey's and Mr. Bunter's sense of humor. It was a page turner as I was wanting to find out what happened to Mr. Levy and who the mysterious body found in the bathtub belonged to. (  ) Stacy_Krout | Feb 11, 2021 | An excellent mystery novel. The dated slang is really distracting, and I can't place some of the references. On the other hand, the epistolary bits and the morbid bits are really quite good. The murderer is a true psychopath; but nobody comes out and says it. He's really quite disturbing. The conversations about morality are worth the trouble. The novel is actually a bit like a play, conveying so much through the conversations, and this works very well. My recollection is that in later novels Sayers just got better and better at what she was already clearly exceptionally good at in this, her first detective novel. ( ) themulhern | Feb 6, 2021 | This was originally on my TBR so I could participate in a virtual book discussion via my library. I cancelled my spot because I needed the time to read the new behemoth Jimmy Carter bio (which I didn't enjoy). I'm really kicking myself now, because it would have been cool to get others' take on this very dated (but apparently still-loved) mystery. I found it hard to enjoy, in no small part because of its anti-Semitism, among other irritants. (  ) joyblue | Jan 23, 2021 | There were some really hilarious lines in this -"She was very sorry indeed about having left the bathroom window open, she reely was, and though I was angry at first, seeing what's come of it, it wasn't anything to speak of, not in the ordinary way, as you might say. Girls will forget things, you know, my lord, and reely she was so distressed I didn't like to say too much to her. All I said was, 'It might have been burglars,' I said, 'remember that, next time you leave a window open all night; this time it was a dead man,' I said, 'and that's unpleasant enough, but next time it might be burglars,'" Some of the character's opinions were really troubling to absorb, as a modern reader. They may have been representative of opinion at the time, but when you see them now, they make you wince. I guess you don't have to like every character in a novel. ( ) Vividrogers | Dec 20, 2020 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Pertence à sériePertence à série publicadaThe Albatross Mystery Club (No. 418) Four Square Books (775) Prisma Detectives (551) rororo (5496) — 1 mais SaPo (299) Está contido emThree Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night de Dorothy L. Sayers Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels de Dorothy L. Sayers (indireta) The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death de Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: Containing Whose body? The unpleasantness at the Bellona club, Suspicious characters de Dorothy L. Sayers Tem a adaptaçãoÉ expandida em
In the debut mystery in Dorothy L. Sayers's acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series, the case of a dead bather draws Lord Peter into the 1st of many puzzling mysteries Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London's greatest sleuth--and he's about to encounter his oddest case yet. A strange corpse has appeared in a suburban architect's bathroom, stark naked save for an incongruous pince-nez. When Wimsey arrives on the scene, he is confronted with a once-in-a-lifetime puzzle. The police suspect that the bathtub's owner is the murderer, but Wimsey's investigation quickly reveals that the case is much stranger than anyone could have predicted. Published in 1923, during detective fiction's Golden Age, Whose Body? introduced a character and a series that would make Dorothy L. Sayers famous. To this day, Lord Peter remains 1 of the genre's most beloved and brilliant characters. Whose Body? is the 1st book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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