![]() ![]() She is best known for her crime fiction but also for her popular plays. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer and playwright. Sayers is much better with people she might recognise as "like us" then with people from other social groups. Some of these characters are further developed in later novels: Bunter, Parker, the Dowager Duchess, Freddy Arbuthnot. The plot is clever, the villain is believable and sadistic, and most of the supporting characters are a delight. ![]() In spite of its awkwardness, Whose Body is worth reading. Over subsequent books, this caricature smooths and deepens into one of the most interesting and attractive detectives in fiction. Lord Peter is here more a bundle of characteristics than a character: a collector of rare books and incunabula, facile with quotations, fluent in French and probably in Latin, a skillful and sensitive pianist who never needs to practise, slightly built but possessed of "curious" strength and speed which he maintains without exercise. "Whose Body" is something of an apprentice work. The Wimsey Papers-The Wartime Letters and Documents of the Wimsey FamilyĬrime, fiction, Lord Peter Wimsey (Fictional character), mystery This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) ![]()
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