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No murder but Lord Wimsey trusts his gut and investigates anyway. He finds motive and countless suspicious circumstances but no evidence of murder, until another person dies. And no evidence that it was murder. The hint of racism appears again and that turned me off quite a bit so that I won‘t continue the series. Saved, just barely, by some instances of lol humor and a nice analysis of how changes in laws create motives for murder. #authoramonth

This was fine. It's entertaining. I heard that these get better, but I might stall here at three.

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Tonight‘s read. #authoramonth #LordPeterWhimsey #LitsyAtoZ #letterU

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Although Square Haunting was a #NFNovember pick, I never finished it. So tonight I read the chapter on Dorothy Sayers as a prelude to starting Unnatural Death. #serieslove2025

I really enjoy how Lord Peter seems clever but also a little silly and impetuous, but there's a point in each of Sayers's novels when his serious side comes through, not in a heavy-handed way, but often just as a glimpse. In many ways I find this mask/true self characterization more realistic than the more either/or characters in many books, and it helps to explain why those around him are so devoted to him, even when he acts like an ass.

This was a great re-read of a classic mystery! The #audiobook version is read wonderfully by Ian Carmichael. I love Mrs Climpson, Wimsey's detective for hire, who gets all sorts of juicy information from people because she's an inquisitive older lady and no one suspects her of being a spy. This one also has interesting (for the time) sapphic subtext, both for the murder victim and the killer.

Getting a cold when you are 33.5 weeks pregnant: not recommended

Listening to an old Dorothy L Sayers mystery you've already read while sick and very pregnant: recommended

Another witty book by the author. Lord Peter Wimsey is just so droll. 😁
The mystery itself was not the most riveting but the humour made up for it.

Don't know how many times I've read this, but as I'm going to London by train (mask on!) and I was looking up a quote in it only yesterday, I'm going to just have to read it again.

"To the person who has anything to conceal - to the person who wants to lose his identity as one leaf among the leaves of a forest - to the person who asks no more than to pass by and be forgotten, there is one name above others which promises a haven of safety and oblivion. London.
(...)
London, whose rather untidy and grubby bosom is the repository of so many odd secrets. Discreet, incurious and all-enfolding London."

"'Was it Voltaire who said that the English had three hundred and sixty-five religions and only one sauce?'
'Judging from the War Tribunals,' said Parker, 'I should say that was an understatement. And then there's America - a country, I understand, remarkably well supplied with religions.'"

Continuing my påskekrim reading after a quick detour to read some Sandman. We're playing the @DeweysReadathon board game, and I landed on graphic novel. Now I'm on book to movie/TV and mysteriously the Lewis trilogy has not been adapted for the screen. I don't get it, it's so visual it's like reading a TV show. But no worries, I have a Lord Peter mystery I don't think I've read yet (or if I did it was years ago).

Eh, definitely not among my favourite Wimsey novels. Bonus points for Miss Climpson, though. But I guessed the twist at the end, and I got a strong sense of 'even if this old lady might indeed have been murdered, she was terminally ill anyway, so it's not that bad a crime'. I'm sure the woman in question would beg to differ!

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It all started with an interruption in a conversation in a Restaurant. From this Lord Peter Wimsey gets involved in a case that doesn‘t seem a case but at first glance a death from natural causes. Watch as he goes on the hunt that leads to more than one murder. This ended up in an excellent murder mystery with suspense at times and the reader trying to work out what went on and why. Definitely recommend this one and look forward to reading others.

Started reading Unnatural Death, which is the third book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series by Dorothy L Sayers. This was published in 1927. #CenturyOfBooks

I've probably told the story about when I had my gallbladder out: I had a panic attack while coming out of anaesthesia. The nurses could not calm me down and I was hyperventilating so badly my blood oxygenation was dangerously low. So they called my mother in, and she put on an audiobook... I don't think it was Unnatural Death, but it was one narrated by Ian Carmichael. That's why this series is so comforting for me.

It worked this time too.

Rereading because I feel bleh. Dorothy Sayers is always good for that! I never think of this as my favourite, but it has so many good bits with Miss Climpson, and the dialogue between Peter and Parker.

Finished my first #cozyinthesun .
It was the third installment of Lord Peter Wimsey. Wimsey is introduced to a story about an elderly woman, who should die because of cancer and who dies just too early... The doctor is sure, something went wrong and Wimsey and Parker start their observation.
A nice read, but I still don't like the hints to Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple... 😉 @Librarybelle @ferskner

Finally the headache is getting better. So it's time for #cozyinthesun @Librarybelle @ferskner

Also starting this one for #cozyinthesun hosted by @Librarybelle and @ferskner 💓😍💖

In this Lord Peter mystery I enjoyed watching LPW use all of his contacts in an effort to solve the mystery. It also illuminated the difference between finding the truth because others want it or finding the truth for truth‘s sake.

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12/28th was the last day of work, and what I expected was a nice relaxing end of the working year turned into a hot mess complete with having to confront a co-worker. So upset I went to the library to calm down and found an old friend. Lord Peter instinctively senses the death of an old woman is murder and sets out to prove it. So comforting!

#BookMail My last BookMail Of 2018 is a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy.L.Sayers. Even though I‘ve ordered the first four books in the series, unfortunately they‘re not coming in order so I can‘t start reading yet🙄Oh well, not like I‘m running out of options😋 #LastBookMailOf2018 #wishmeluckworkingouthowmanyiboughtin2018 #somanybookssolittlefunds

Good puzzle. Although they would not pass muster these days, Lord Peter's (and presumably the author's) racial attitudes are more enlightened than other some of the characters'. Although it couldn't be openly said in 1927, I assume Mary Whittaker is supposed to be a lesbian. Perhaps Miss Dawson and the elder Miss Whittaker are also supposed to be more sympathetically drawn lesbians.

Aaagh. I have to go back to work after lunch with only the final chapter to go. 😨 Will Lord Peter solve the case in time to rescue plucky Miss Climpton from the murdering fiend? 😨

... the cheerful brutality of the man who has never in his life been short of money.

Happy murderers

Reading the tagged book from this collection because some friends were talking about it on FB and I'd forgotten most of it.

Finished rereading this last night, wife's listening to it this morning as we drive back from picking up our favourite #BunniesofLitsy. Such a clever mystery.

I've read all of Dorothy Sayers's work multiple times, but still couldn't remember how this one ended. Ian Carmichael was a terrific narrator, and this was so much fun to listen to as I drove back-and-forth to work. I'll be getting another one for my commute soon.

Started this on last leg of journey home. It was first published in 1927. So glad it's still being republished. Love the writing style. I hope we never lose the wonderful words, phrases and use of English found in books like this. I'm jet lagged , having a pj day, rain outside -- perfect for finishing this book.

Another delightful old school British mystery, excellently done on audiobook. (Ian Carmichael was the reader for this one, and I like him just as much as the woman reader of Whose Body?). I especially liked the implicit queer characters: more than one woman devoting herself to a bestie and vowing eternal spinsterhood while earning unladylike livings (including, of course, murder). Also loved Whimsey's new team member. #Audiobooks #Mysteries

"It was a most unpleasant adventure." - English man, describing the experience of attempted murder by poisoning.

Haha! It sounds like Mary Whittaker, the great niece of the murdered old lady and possibly the murderer, is following in her aunt's footsteps and is also going to follow "the lesbian lifestyle." Making pacts with other women to remain spinsters together? Sounds like early 20th century queers to me.

This is another fun audiobook mystery so far. I am convinced that the two old spinster ladies who never married and lived together, one of whom is described as 'mannish' looking who earned a very unladylike living breeding horses, were lesbians. If this doesn't end up being the case and somehow connected to the murder of the surviving woman I will be highly disappointed.

"My dear Charles, it doesn't do for people…to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."
Read with fantastic, well-bred Englishman voice. I heart Lord Peter Wimsey.

"She was obstinate, you know, and what they call a character, at the best of times." ~ that's a murder victim if ever I met one