A review by siria
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

3.0

The beginning of the shift from the early Lord Peter to the Peter we're more familiar with from the books which feature Harriet. The plot is as convoluted and vaguely implausible as you might expect, focused more on the how- and whydunnit than the who. It's mostly interesting as an artefact of its time: the breathtakingly casual level of the racism exhibited by many of the characters; the faintly stereotypical yet entirely sympathetic depiction of the only character of colour in the book; the wonky gender essentialism; the hinted at lesbian relationships, one of them portrayed as happy and life-long, the others... not so much.