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This was a re-read for me. I'd forgotten just how much I enjoyed some of these stories. As I read them, I remembered most of them from previous read (s).
The final story reminded me very much of Patricia Wentworth's Grey Mask in her Miss Silver stories. (grumble, grumble. autocorrect is going to kill me yet.) The story before that looked like a precursor to Sayers' own Have His Carcase. Both the story and the novel start much the same but do take different paths.
I think I first read this in the ...more
The final story reminded me very much of Patricia Wentworth's Grey Mask in her Miss Silver stories. (grumble, grumble. autocorrect is going to kill me yet.) The story before that looked like a precursor to Sayers' own Have His Carcase. Both the story and the novel start much the same but do take different paths.
I think I first read this in the ...more
LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY, 1928, Lord Peter short stories, nicely twisted; latest reread was from the 1985 audio edition, Chivers Audio Books, read by Ian Carmichael - this contains most, but not all, of the stories from this early edition. Short story collection, excellent; narration perfect.
NOTE: The 1928 edition was also printed at some point titled LORD PETER, but there is also a larger compilation with that name from the 1970s that includes ALL the stories written by Sayers about him, not ...more
NOTE: The 1928 edition was also printed at some point titled LORD PETER, but there is also a larger compilation with that name from the 1970s that includes ALL the stories written by Sayers about him, not ...more
My favorite Wimsey stories so far. I think Sayer's writing and plots work best in short stories. We get to see many different sides of Wimsey most of which show a gradually maturing Wimsey who rather than being unattached to things and rather flippant only uses that as a smokescreen and at times is annoyed by people's assumption based on his passive looks. The cases aren't just murder either so there are more lighthearted fare and capers. There are several missing wills, criminal gangs, internat
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I prefer Lord Peter in novels instead of short stories.
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