The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey Series #4)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Overview

From Dorothy L. Sayers, the mistress of the Golden Age mystery, the fourth whodunnit featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey

On November 11, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is found dead in an armchair at the Bellona Club. No one knows exactly when his death occurred—information essential in determining the recipient of a substantial inheritance. But that is only one of the mysteries vexing Lord Peter Wimsey. The aristocratic sleuth needs every bit of his amazing skills to discover why the proud officer's lapel was missing the requisite red poppy on Armistice Day, how the Bellona Club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062311917
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/07/2014
Series:	Lord Peter Wimsey Series , #4
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	74,003
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

Date of Birth:

June 13, 1893

Date of Death:

December 17, 1957

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1915; M.A., B.C.L., 1920

Editorial Reviews

Dorothy Sayers gives us Lord Peter Wimsey at his best. For "those who take detective stories seriously."

Times Literary Supplement