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Whose Body? (1925)

de Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sèrie: Lord Peter Wimsey (1)

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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.… (més)
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    The Inimitable Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse (casvelyn)
    casvelyn: Lord Peter Wimsey and Bertie Wooster are rather similar characters, and they both have loyal and competent valets. Peter, of course, solves mysteries, while Bertie is more of a comic figure.
  2. 00
    Long Before Forty de C. S. Forester (themulhern)
    themulhern: The med school student Lord Peter interviewed could just as well have been C. S. Forester himself (before he dropped out of med school and became a novelist).
  3. 00
    A Test of Wills de Charles Todd (majkia)
    majkia: similar focus on shellshock.
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    Thank You, Jeeves de P. G. Wodehouse (themulhern)
    themulhern: Lord Peter is pretty obviously inspired by Bertie, as Bunter by Jeeves. This just seems impossible to deny.
  5. 01
    L'assassinat de Roger Ackroyd de Agatha Christie (cbl_tn)
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Ce roman est apoarenté au genre "chambre close".
  marievictoire | May 30, 2023 |
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  SueJBeard | Feb 14, 2023 |
Warning: this review contains spoilers (discussion of how the identity of the murderer is revealed).

****

As far as openings to cases go, this one is a doozy: a body wearing only a pair of pince-nez is found in the bathtub of a man in Battersea. Nobody knows whose body this is. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, who solves mysteries as an amateur with a bit of assistance from his friend Parker, who works for Scotland Yard, and a lot more assistance from his valet, Bunter.

This is the debut for Lord Peter and sets up the family situation, the crime-solving dynamic, and the narrative style. Sayers writes as though she is Wimsey’s biographer, providing a few extra footnotes about his story. The edition I read seemed to have been reprinted at least after Strong Poison, because it contained an introductory note from Lord Peter’s uncle that referenced events from books up to that point in the series.

The mystery itself is fine, but because Parker is investigating the disappearance of a Jewish financier, there are some antisemitic comments, more at the beginning of the book than at the end. The reveal of the murderer is fair enough, I suppose; the identity might be easy to work out but the finer details might have to wait for the full confession provided at the end (reproduced verbatim).

This is actually the fourth Lord Peter Wimsey book I’ve read, but the first in the series. So I personally have no problem with reading this series a bit out of order :)

Bonus info: Lord Peter lunches at the Cathedral Hotel in Salisbury in this book. I stayed at this hotel in 2015 and saw the blue plaque installed at the hotel to commemorate Lord Peter’s visit. ( )
1 vota rabbitprincess | Feb 5, 2023 |
Peter Wimsey and Bunter. A fun British detective mystery. Thoroughly enjoyable. ( )
  JMigotsky | Jan 27, 2023 |
One of my favorite series, but this first one had some beginner flaws such as too much exposition. Still, love the characters and can't wait to see them develop. ( )
  JudyGibson | Jan 26, 2023 |
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Sayers, Dorothy L.autor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bayer, OttoTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Berg, DanielTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bleck, CathieAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Case, DavidNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
George, ElizabethIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Griffini, Grazia MariaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Kendall, RoeNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
May, NadiaNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Rikman, KristiinaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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To M. J. Dear Jim: This book is your fault. If it had not been for your brutal insistence, Lord Peter would never have staggered through to the end of the enquiry. Pray consider that he thanks you with his accustomed suavity. Yours ever, D. L. S.
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"Look here, Peter," said the other [Parker] with some earnestness, "Suppose you get this playing-fields-of-Eton complex out of your system once and for all. There doesn't seem to be much doubt that something unpleasant has happened to Sir Reuben Levy. Call it murder, to strengthen the argument. If Sir Reuben has been murdered, is it a game? and is it fair to treat it as a game?"
"That is what I'm ashamed of, really," said Lord Peter. "It IS a game to me, to begin with, and I go on cheerfully, and then I suddenly see that somebody is going to be hurt, and I want to get out of it." (Chapter VII, Leipzig: The Albatross 1938, p. 176)
"There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is sufficiently limited."
"But when you can really investigate, Mr. Parker, and break up the dead, or for preference the living body with the scalpel, you always find the footmarks---the little train of ruin or disorder left by madness or disease or drink or any other similar pest. But the difficulty is to trace them back, merely by observing the surface symptoms---the hysteria, crime, religion, fear, shyness, conscience, or whatever it may be; just as you observe a theft or a murder and look for the footsteps of the criminal, so I observe a fit of hysterics or an outburst of piety and hunt for the little mechanical irritation which has produced it."
"All these men work with a bias in their minds, one way or another," he said; "they find what they are looking for."
"Yes, yes, I know," said the detective, "but that's because you're thinking about your attitude. You want to be consistent, you want to look pretty, you want to swagger debonairly through a comedy of puppets or else to stalk magnificently through a tragedy of human sorrows and things. But that's childish. If you've any duty to society in the way of finding out the truth about murders, you must do it in any attitude that comes handy. You want to be elegant and detached? That's all right, if you find the truth out that way, but it hasn't any value in itself, you know. You want to look dignified and consistent---what's that got to do with it? You want to hunt down a murderer for the sport of the thing and then shake hands with him and say, 'Well played---hard luck---you shall have your revenge tomorrow!' Well, you can't do it like that. Life's not a football match. You want to be a sportsman. You can't be a sportsman. You're a responsible person."

"I don't think you ought to read so much theology," said Lord Peter. "It has a brutalizing influence."
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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.

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