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This is an early Lord Peter Wimsey—not the first, so readers have had time to get attached to him, but the perfect point in the series to expand his back story in a big way by setting a murder within his own family. His sister’s fiancé has been found dead at a shooting lodge, and Wimsey’s older brother, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested for the murder.
It’s not the first time I've read this, but it must have been a while because I couldn’t remember the ending at all. I much enjoyed reading it ...more
It’s not the first time I've read this, but it must have been a while because I couldn’t remember the ending at all. I much enjoyed reading it ...more
I loved the first Peter Wimsey book, Whose Body?, and have been doing my best not to blast through the entire series. I'm saving them for when I need a fun, thinking, comfort read and Clouds of Witness delivers.
This time I went with the audiobook and I have a much better grasp of the characters now that I've heard them. It must be hard to do British narration, having to take into account geographical accents as well as those of class, and Ian Carmichael does a great job. The scene with a drunk W ...more
This time I went with the audiobook and I have a much better grasp of the characters now that I've heard them. It must be hard to do British narration, having to take into account geographical accents as well as those of class, and Ian Carmichael does a great job. The scene with a drunk W ...more
can't remember which of the three Wimseys i liked the most, the third i think, but it suddenly starts containing the n word near the end - i wish they'd bowdlerise old books, they didn't realise that inserting words like 'a sheeny' would ruin the whole book, and the books don't gain. If such things are important to the book itself, the book wouldn't be worth reading anyway. But these books are fun, these old whodunnits - why waste or ruin them? She is such a good writer, and beyond cultured, but
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I don't know why I don't like these stories. I like mysteries. I like stories from last century. But for some reason, this series does not entertain me.
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