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Whose Body?
- Author
- Dorothy L Sayers
- Narrator
- Robert Bathurst
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 16 November 2023
- Run Time
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime and mysteries
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance.
The body wore nothing else.
Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' Battersea bathroom.
'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Firstly, Robert Bathurst is a wonderful narrator of this first novel of Dorothy L Sayers. Secondly, what a fantastic novel with a brilliant lead character in Lord Peter Wimsey. Oddly, l never felt the urge or need to read Sayers as l grew up reading the novels of Christie, Marsh, Allingham, Tey and Dickson Carr, together with Chandler, Hammett and SS Van Dine. What a treat I've deprived myself of over these 60-years. To state that Sayers is a revelation is egregious understatement. The lady was a magnificent writer, and l fully understand the reason for her elevated position within the pantheon of Golden Age of Crime fiction. To purchase this novel on a whim feels almost sacrilegious but l have repented in buying books two and three as l await, hopefully, the brilliant narrator's completion of many more of Sayer's novels. To listen to another narrator, who are available, would be very off-putting having listened to Mr Bathurst.
Thomas Reilly 2025-10-05
Details
- Author
- Dorothy L Sayers
- Narrator
- Robert Bathurst
- Duration
- 5 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781399728331
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Historical crime and mysteries
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
The first book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series - a must-listen for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries.It was the body of a tall stout man. On his dead face, a handsome pair of gold pince-nez mocked death with grotesque elegance.The body wore nothing else.Lord Peter Wimsey knew immediately what the corpse was supposed to be. His problem was to find out whose body had found its way into Mr Alfred Thipps' Battersea bathroom.'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James
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