Book description
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern
writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L.
Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. His fourth appearance
solves the mystery of a of sudden death in a gentleman's club in London.
With an introduction by Elizabeth George. Lord Peter Wimsey bent down
over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the
gnarled old hands. Then, with a quick jerk, he lifted the quiet figure.
It came up all of a piece, stiff as a wooden doll . . . But how did the
general die? Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for
questioning? And which of the general's heirs, both members of the
Bellona Club, is lying? 'I admire her novels . . . she has great
fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth
Rendell She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence,
energy and wit.' Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was
both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as
her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays,
but considered her translations of Dante`s Divina Commedia to be her
best work. She died in 1957.
