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Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: August 1, 2016

Finish date: August 31, 2016

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Jun 20, 2020 Tania rated it liked it

Shelves: mystery

Much better than the last one. The rapport between Harriet and Lord Peter is fun to read about, but the actual mystery felt overly dragged out.

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Jan 17, 2016 John Frankham rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

The second Lord Peter Wimsey novel to include Harriet Vane. She discovers a body on an off-shore rock. A hotel dance partner, was he a gigolo or a Russian Royal. Suicide or murder? If murdered, can the alibis of his aging fiancee's son, and of the itinerant barber, hiker, camper, motorist, fishermen, be broken. Stylish writing and dialogue, maybe too much solving of ciphers and consideration of 'how long would it take to get from A to B.' So, a 4*. ...more

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Dec 23, 2016 SewingandCaring rated it liked it

Shelves: detectives

Good but not great, still a bit heavy on the logic problem/crossword fad of that era. One to be avoided on audiobook. Great big reams of codes that are important to the plot but impossible to read out loud.

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