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A review by english_lady03
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
My first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery. I have watched several of these, but never read them. Amazon Kindle has had several on sale recently, so I decided to buy them.
Sayers was of course a friend of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, but she stands on her own as one of the great crime fiction writers of the 20th century, pioneering the private detective/amateur sleuth protaganist alongside contemporaries like Chesterton and Christie.
Lord Peter is just the shade of quirky and eccentric that I love in a character. Not the point of absurdity though, the man has an amazingly sharp mind, a great love for literature, and sadly PTSD from the first world war. He's one of the more interesting protaganists of mysteries from this period.
There are some fascinating and disturbing explorations of human pyschology and the criminal mind in this novel, all the more interesting since this was the time when pyschology was in its infancy. Some of the ideas espoused by scientists are an unsettling foreshadowing of events which which happen later in the century.
Recommended for any who love classic detective fiction.
Sayers was of course a friend of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien, but she stands on her own as one of the great crime fiction writers of the 20th century, pioneering the private detective/amateur sleuth protaganist alongside contemporaries like Chesterton and Christie.
Lord Peter is just the shade of quirky and eccentric that I love in a character. Not the point of absurdity though, the man has an amazingly sharp mind, a great love for literature, and sadly PTSD from the first world war. He's one of the more interesting protaganists of mysteries from this period.
There are some fascinating and disturbing explorations of human pyschology and the criminal mind in this novel, all the more interesting since this was the time when pyschology was in its infancy. Some of the ideas espoused by scientists are an unsettling foreshadowing of events which which happen later in the century.
Recommended for any who love classic detective fiction.