There\'s a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles.
This novel marks the debut of her most popular creation, Lord Peter Wimsey, Whose continuing adventures unfold amid the lively world of upper-crust British society in the 1920s..
A novelist, essayist, and medieval scholar, Sayers was among the first women to receive an Oxford degree, and her translations of Dante remain in wide circulation.
Sayers ranks with Agatha Christie as a defining author of the genre.
Dorothy L.
Written by a master of the detective story, this atmospheric tale abounds in the cozy delights of an English murder mystery.
But discovering exactly which way they\'re related leads the amateur detective on a merry chase.
Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known financier is in some way connected to the body in the bathroom.
Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth.
There\'s a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles
