- Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Large type books
On Armistice day, an elderly gentleman is found dead in his chair at his club. The death seems natural enough, but a tricky question of inheritance leads Lord Peter to try to pin the time down more exactly. And the more questions he asks, the more unpleasant things start to seem.
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Classical in form, cool, intimate and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- August 1993
- Pages
- 254
- Publisher
- New English Library, Coronet Books, Librairies des Champs Elysées
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- English, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781444837537
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- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Large type books
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Wimsey, peter, lord (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- England, fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Vane, harriet (fictitious character), fiction
“What in the world, Wimsey are you doing in this Morgue?"”
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