false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172582153m/192892.jpg 192892 27 The wealthy old woman was dead -- a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of <I>amour</I>  -- staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.<P><I><blockquote>"Here the modern detective story begins to come to its own; and all the historical importance aside, it remains an absorbing and charming story today."</I></blockquote> 520581 book 1927 Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Paperback)) total:914|5:200|4:416|3:280|2:16|1:2| 914 3538 1123 48 4 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 04:48:36 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 04:48:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 07:42:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 08:22:27 -0700 2009 2
This is my favorite of the Lord Peter mysteries that do not feature Harriet Vane - and the audio version of the book was quite wonderful. Ian Carmichael continues to give a very nice rendition of Lord Peter.

This novel introduces Miss. Climpson and unlike the pre...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:42:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 16:04:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 14:47:44 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:53:41 -0700 2009
"Unnatural Death" is a bit of an unusual mystery novel in that the person who committed the murder is a given from the beginning, making the story not so much a whodunnit as a howdunnit and a whydunnit. Altho...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 07:30:24 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 19 07:37:05 -0700 2007
This is a really good read. It's pretty neat and tense and creepy as a mystery (even though you know right from the start who did it), but is even better as a character study. There's plenty of Parker and M...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 11:08:24 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 11:14:19 -0700 2007
In 2005, out of a spasm of nervousness, I started indexing all my books. In the process I realized that while I had a wide range of subjects and styles, almost everything I had was written by men. So I started asking...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Thu Aug 16 02:30:26 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 02:47:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 08:49:52 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 18:49:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 11:36:21 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:38:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 20:05:19 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 07:12:17 -0800 2009
I suspect Sayers' treatment of race was fairly enlightened for her time; as with anti-Semitism in Whose Body?, Sayers doesn't condone the racism of her characters or at least the vehemence of their ha...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 11:21:59 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 11:44:56 -0700 2007 It's always interesting to me to see cultural views reflected in literature of the time. Here, for instance, one of the characters relays another character's indignation at having a "nigger" (who is actually half-polynesian, half-white) over...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:22:47 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 07:27:37 -0700 2009
Still, the characters are still good and likable, and it's interesting that this is more a whydunnit than a w...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:12:24 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:16:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Feb 27 14:40:47 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 14:40:47 -0800 2008 cause of death -- her heart failed, but he can't figure out why. She was dying of cancer, but ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 19:41:31 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 28 10:15:09 -0800 2007 The incidental characters add leaven to "Unnatur...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 06:51:57 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 14:05:46 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 16:35:53 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 08:50:09 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 15:11:44 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 13:33:17 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 21:48:54 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:56:30 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Dec 02 15:27:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:28:08 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=192892