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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
fast-paced
lighthearted
mysterious
Several years ago I tried and failed to read Whose Body?, primarily because I hated it. I don't remember how far I got before putting it down for good but it wasn't far. This was disappointing to say the least, because I'm not ready to re-read all 12,000 Agatha Christies, but I have been feeling the need to read something similar.
Aside from that, people seem to really love Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey and so I could not believe that I didn't. I don't think people usually hate books by mistake, but I guess stranger things have happened, and so I decided to try #3 in the series (having read that it's a big improvement over the first one).
And it is! Here's proof:
Aside from that, people seem to really love Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey and so I could not believe that I didn't. I don't think people usually hate books by mistake, but I guess stranger things have happened, and so I decided to try #3 in the series (having read that it's a big improvement over the first one).
And it is! Here's proof:
"'And Agatha Dawson didn't want to die,' added Parker, "she said so.'
'No,' said Wimsey, thoughtfully, 'and I suppose she had a right to an opinion.'"
I adore Dorothy L. Sayers' writing. I adore Lord Peter Wimsey and Inspector Parker and Katherine Climpson and all the minor characters. I could read them again and again.
An novel take on the mystery by having everyone know the murder basically from page one and what we spend ~250 pages learning how they did it. Still not as good as the first, though. I think Im just going to skip the next one and go straight to the Harriet Vane ones.
I surprised myself by figuring out the mystery very early on. I liked this book. I liked the character of Miss Climpsey.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
mysterious
medium-paced
Okay, but not great. After the more expansive take on the mystery genre in [b:Clouds of Witness|192888|Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)|Dorothy L. Sayers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1287510321l/192888._SY75_.jpg|1576206], this volume returns to more standard fare a la [b:Whose Body?|192893|Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)|Dorothy L. Sayers|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387573241l/192893._SY75_.jpg|1090544], even starting off with a visitor telling a long personal story detailing the core mystery like in many Sherlock Holmes stories. It's a good read, but more of a "how and why was it done?" than a whodunnit.
Note: there's a lot of implied lesbianism in this book, some of it positive, but a great deal of it veering towards the depiction of the lesbian as dangerously disordered. And there are some discussions of race (including the use of slurs) that would be distinctly unwelcome in modern fiction. In many ways, the story was more fascinating for me as a window on Sayers' views than as a piece in itself.
Note: there's a lot of implied lesbianism in this book, some of it positive, but a great deal of it veering towards the depiction of the lesbian as dangerously disordered. And there are some discussions of race (including the use of slurs) that would be distinctly unwelcome in modern fiction. In many ways, the story was more fascinating for me as a window on Sayers' views than as a piece in itself.