Whose Body‪?‬

Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel



The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What’s more, The face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection as a hobby, knew better. In this, his first murder case, Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse in the bath.



Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel



In this new edition of Dorothy Sayers’s Whose Body?, readers are introduced to the star of her mystery series, Lord Peter Wimsey. In this first book of Sayers’s series, Peter, an amateur sleuth, is intrigued and mystified by the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bathtub of an architect. Meanwhile, another man, a financier, is reported missing, last having been seen leaving his house stark naked! Though originally thought to be two separate occurrences, as Peter investigates, he discovers the death and disappearance are indeed related. As clues amass and become stranger and stranger, will Lord Peter be able to solve the mystery?



Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel



Follow along with Lord Peter Wimsey in this new and improved edition of Dorothy Sayers’s original debut novel Whose Body? With a beautiful new cover and enhanced text and footnotes, this novel will be sure to leave any mystery or historical fiction fan begging for more.



Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel