Whose Body?, Dorothy L. Sayers

“First-rate...marvelous reading.” —Chicago Sun-Times

“Sayers brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, and wit.” —P. D. James

Dorothy L. Sayer’s first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In Wimsey’s first case, he undertakes an investigation to discover the identity and the murderer of a man who is found in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. An ingenious and intricate plot follows that essentially announced the advent of a new star in the firmament of detective story writing, and one of the first magnitude. This Warbler Classics edition includes the Strand Magazine article “The Great Detectives: Lord Peter Wimsey” by Chris Willis.

DOROTHY L. SAYERS (1893–1957) is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. Her blue-blooded sleuth romps cheerfully through 1920s and 1930s high society. Arguably the best of the leading “Golden Age” crime writers, Sayers was also a distinguished theologian and classical scholar, whose translations of Dante are still in print today.