The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body? / The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club / The Five Red Herrings / Nine Tailors

Lord Peter Wimsey #1,5,7,11

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

709 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.

Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...

Reviews

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lord Peter Wimsey is a lord and a sleuth - fast-talking, irreverent, with a wry sense of humour, he is a very likable detective. This collection contains four of the Lord Wimsey novels, all quite different from each other, and all quite exciting. Lord Peter's cases are intricate and unpredictable like those of Hercule Poirot, and his sidekick and butler Bunter is a know-it-all ex-soldier who knows exactly how to deal with his employer. The characters tend to be likable and memorable enough - Lord Peter's mother is quite a bold, efficient woman, the priest in Nine Tailors is an absent-minded, talkative guy, Bunter puts his master in place more often than anyone else can.
The reason I gave the collection 3 stars is that the novels would have greatly benefitted from a bold editor. The last two novels in the collection could have easily been a third shorter. I did not notice this so much with the first two titles, but it was probably an issue there too. There are long, unnecessary conversations, and each suspect often gives a full narration of the events, making the expository sections a dreary read.

[Carolyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Compilation only bought for “Five Red Herrings”, having holidayed in that region last year, where the book (story) is much championed in local book shops.
Very dated in language and appropriate terminology, unsurprisingly.
Didn’t engage with the plot particularly, and not inclined to read the remaining stories in the compilation.

[Academama · Rating 5 out of 5]

How much do I love Dorothy Sayers?


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This much.