- Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Mystery and detective stories
When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was and how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing and a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime and its violent unravelling twenty years later.
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Classical in form, resolved, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- September 1, 1959
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Brand: Soundelux Audio Pub, New English Library, New English Library Ltd
- Editions
- 69
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780745174136
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“plunged down the side of the dyke into the deep ditch beyond, where the black spikes of a thorn hedge stood bleak and unwelcoming in the glare of the headlights. Right and left, before and behind, the fen lay shrouded.”
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