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Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: April 15, 2025

Finish date: May 7, 2016

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: For all our Wimsey fans
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Apr 15, 2014 Jan C rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: england, hot-read, 2014, audio, library, mystery, 2017, rtd-2016-sayers-challenge

Found the audio copy of this at the library waiting for me to go to North Carolina.

Enjoyable. Made the miles fly by.

While this was my 6th reading of this book, I apparently forgot the conclusion or the killer.

I was driving along trying to figure it out when the light bulb went off.

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Feb 14, 2016 Judy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: dorothy-l-sayers-2016-challenge

Just rereading this in 2025 and enjoying it so far. My previous review from 2016 is below - I may write a new one after finishing.

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I'm enjoying rereading the Lord Peter Wimsey books in order. This one has an intriguing start, when Peter and his policeman friend Parker are eating out together, and an overheard conversation leads to the reopening of what would now be called a "cold case".

Peter is intrigued by a doctor's claims that the death of an elderly and terminally ill woman, Agatha Dawson ...more

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Sep 19, 2011 Susan in NC rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reread, favorites

Still four stars for me after reading for the first time several years ago. After brain surgery I tire easily - even reading - so rereads on the iPad blown up to a large font are the only way I can read for now!

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Jul 08, 2020 Nanosynergy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, series, mysteries-thrillers-espionage, british, fiction-1920s, 2020read

Enjoyable mystery from 1927. Be warned, it does contain material of its time on women and people of color. But at the same time, Sayers seems to attempt to try to be progressive on several things.

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