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Lord Peter Views the Body
First published 1928 Reading time about 6 hours
Lord Peter Views the Body is the first collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. The character of Wimsey had become so popular that Sayers started writing short stories about him, which were then published in magazines like Pearson’s. There are twelve stories in this collection about mysteries as varied as the consequences of several peculiar wills, to the hazardous breakup of a secret society.
- Private investigators · England · Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Murder · Investigation · Fiction
- Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character), 1890- · Fiction
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