The central figure is Lord Peter Wimsey, an amateur criminologist and a bibliophil. All the same, it is a lively tale and rather good fun. The characters look like composite photographs made up of several old friends, and where the incidents are original they are fantastically impossible. Times Literary Supplement (25 th October 1923): Originality is not the strong point of this story. A detective novel of a new type, full of thrills and strange occurrences. Whose was the dead, naked body that suddenly appeared in the bathroom of a respectable suburban resident? And how did Sir Reuben Levy, the financier, vanish from his own mansion in Park Lane, attired only in a latchkey and his artificial teeth? These were the problems which Lord Peter Wimsey, blandest of unprofessional sleuths, set out to solve, at some risk to his life and to the nerves of the reader. The murderer’s identity is revealed half-way through, and the pleasure of the second half is in seeing an elaborate, ingenious and gory plot unfold, and Wimsey’s attempts to gather evidence. Opening with the fine and striking idea of the body in the bathtub, rightly described as an “uncommon good incident for a detective story,” the plot is complicated by the disappearance of Sir Reuben Levy. Nor is the serious business of detection neglected. But I do.” The reader, who has no conscience to worry him, enjoys the whole thing without a single moral qualm, for the story is bright and amusing. And I feel as if I oughtn’t ever to find it amusin’.
Priestley’s amoral attitude is preferable!) He enjoys the detection, “but if it comes to really running down a live person and getting him hanged, or even quodded, poor devil, there don’t seem as if there was any excuse for me buttin’ in, since I don’t have to make my livin’ by it. Although Wimsey is too bright and breezy, he is an entertaining companion to crime, although suffers too much from conscience. He features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers.ĭirected at BBC Pebble Mill by Vanessa Whitburn.įirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987.The first Wimsey novel, and one of the most consistently entertaining.
Whose Body? - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteryīut whose body has appeared in a bath in Battersea and where is the body a famous financier Sir Reuben Levy who went to bed one night in his flat in Park Lane and simply disappeared?ĭebonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.Ĭlassy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
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