Whose Body?

2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. A naked body is discovered in the bathroom of a London architects apartment. Is it Sir Reuben Levy the well-known financier who recently disappeared? Or is it a stiff dragged from the dissecting rooms of St. Lukes Hospital? Lord Peter Wimsey must unravel the tangled threads that lead from a prostitute to a well-known surgeon and to a mysterious reunion at a London night-club. In Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. In their review of crime novels Barzun and Taylor call Whose Body? a stunning first novel that disclosed the advent of a new star in the firmament and one of the first magnitude. The episode of the bum in the bathtub the character (and the name) of Sir Julian Freke the detection and the possibilities in Peter Wimsey are so many signs of genius about to erupt.