- Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Large type books
When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye-- cocaine, blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 344
- Publisher
- G. K. Hall, New English Library, Das Quelle-Buch
- Editions
- 98
- Language
- Dutch, English, French, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9798715400277
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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, historical
- Private investigators, fiction
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Detective and mystery stories
- Détectives
“And by the," said Mr. Hankin, arresting Miss Rossiter as she rose to go,"there is a new copy-writer coming today."”
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