Unnatural death (Her The collected edition of detective stories) - Hardcover

Sayers, Dorothy L

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9780575003576: Unnatural death (Her The collected edition of detective stories)

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ISBN 10: 057500357X ISBN 13: 9780575003576

Publisher: Gollancz, 1972

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THIRD IMPRESSION. Vol. 3 in The Collected Edition of Novels and Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1975 Gollancz hardcover, British import. ISBN:057500357x.(Gaudy Night; Busman's Honeymoon). An old woman dies prematurely. Lord Peter hires Miss Climpson(a recurring character in future novels) to use her spinsterish "old lady" manners to chat up the suspects in what may be a homicide.

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About the Author:

Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957.

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In UNNATURAL DEATH, one of the early books in the Lord Peter Whimsey mystery series, Lord Peter investigates what he fears may be the perfect murder. The narrator, Ian Carmichael, gives a superb performance in general, but it takes a few minutes in the beginning to adjust to his accent and fast pace. It's also a puzzle that Carmichael does not differentiate between two main characters, Lord Peter Whimsey and his friend, Inspector Parker from Scotland Yard, when he is quite capable of doing so as he demonstrates with "lower-class" and minor characters of the story, whom he renders in a lively and satisfying manner. P.G. � AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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