A review by dennisfischman
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

3.0

This is one of those Peter Wimsey books that I imagine could have been written by Harriet Vane, since she's portrayed as fussing about with timetables and alibis and all the appurtenances of the mystery writer's craft. Here the key elements are a legal technicality which provides a motive for murder and a medical technique which provides the means. There's also the question of a double identity and a long-lost relative, plus some very 1920's subtlety about lesbian relationships and no subtlety at all about offhand anti-Semitic remarks. In short, it's not as full of character and atmosphere as my favorite Wimseys--except that the scenes with the ingenious Miss Climpson are worth the price of admission.