![]() ![]() As the book was published in 1923, the war surely still loomed large in contemporary readers’ minds, but Sayers leaves out the fact of Lord Peter’s participation in it for a long time. No mention is made, for a considerable period, of the Great War. He immediately gets to work on a curious case when an acquaintance discovers an unidentified corpse in his bathtub and enlists Lord Peter to figure out what’s happened. Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey to the world: an affable, good-humored young man with a fairly keen ability for deduction and a talent and passion for detective work, although he (unlike many fictional sleuths) confesses some misgivings about the role he plays in sending people to the gallows. Audiobook cover for Whose Body?, based on the design of the Hodder & Stoughton 2016 printing of the book. ![]()
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