- Mystery, Detectives, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Translations into Russian
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- May 1, 1988
- Pages
- 212
- Publisher
- Peschel Press, Bibliotech Press, Avon Books
- Editions
- 319
- Language
- German, French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780816167227
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“Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.”
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