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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: September 15, 2025

Finish date: October 6, 2025

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May 11, 2020 Adrian rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Lord Peter Group Read September 2022
After this last re-read I am very tempted to up my review to 5 stars. The writing is excellent, the characters very lifelike albeit from almost 100 years ago and the story is just such a great detective mystery novel.
Lord Peter gets involved quite early on as a dead body is found in one of his clubs. However despite everyone thinking the old gentleman had died a natural death , Lord Peter is concerned about one aspect, and from there all th rest of the story Lord Peter Group Read September 2022
After this last re-read I am very tempted to up my review to 5 stars. The writing is excellent, the characters very lifelike albeit from almost 100 years ago and the story is just such a great detective mystery novel.
Lord Peter gets involved quite early on as a dead body is found in one of his clubs. However despite everyone thinking the old gentleman had died a natural death , Lord Peter is concerned about one aspect, and from there all th rest of the story follows. Through twists and turns, even arguments with his friend Inspector Parker, Lord Peter battles with the intricacies of the case to come up with not only the correct solution but also the morally right one.

Buddy Read May 2020
A really good novel, with an interesting story. The strange thing is that there is no real murder until a man's (General Fentiman) death is discovered to be murder and not natural causes. Lord Peter has been intrinsic in the investigation from the beginning as it occurred in the Belladonna club where he was a member.
Was it George Fentiman, an ex soldier suffering from PTSD after the war or his elder brother Robert. Did they know that his sister was dying and was leaving the General a fortune, if she died before her brother, if not it was all left to an aspiring but awful artist.

Into the mix enters Lord Peter, who knowing the Fentiman brothers wants to get to the bottom of where the General was prior to his death. How did he get into his favourite chair at the Belladonna club ?.
Ultimately murder is discovered and Scotland Yard in the Form of Inspector Parker, Lord Peter's friend, is called in to catch the murderer. Despite many discussions and working together LP and Parker disagree on the solution to the crime, and it is only LP playing an almighty bluff that allows Parker to claim the credit for solving the crime.
An excellent detective story that I had not planned at all to read. It was only because a fellow member of one of my groups is reading all the LP novels, that I tagged along. So thanks to Leslie for allowing me to piggy back on her re-read of the Lord Peter novels and short stories. I shall probably call it a day now till I get more time to factor in a read of all of the Sayers books. Bon Voyage Leslie. ...more

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