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Not accepting the police’s early assumption that the corpse and Sir Reuben are one and the same, Wimsey and Parker follow up the two puzzles alternately and interchangeably, coming together to compare notes. At the same time, we learn of the disappearance – under odd circumstances – of Sir Reuben Levy, a powerful financial magnate in The City. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who figures more or less prominently in later Wimsey novels, plays a central role in Whose Body? as well.Īs the book opens, a bashful Battersea architect has discovered a naked body in his bath, adorned with a gold pince nez. Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. This book’s elegant but also extremely friendly prose prefigures Sayers’s position as one of the three or four best of Britain’s “Golden Age” mystery novelists.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit cover art Download CD case insert Whose Body? (Version 2) The story moves quickly, and even Sayers aficionados claim they can’t tell “whodunit” and “why” until at least half way through. The writing is beautiful, filled with vivid description, dry humor, and interesting (though often arcane) allusions. Whose Body? is not as polished as Sayers’s later novels. Ultimately, Lord Peter and Inspector Parker are forced to conclude that the two mysteries are, in fact, pieces of a single, extremely sinister plot. Bunter’s peculiar insights and photographic evidence are also important in illuminating the mystry.

LibriVox recording of Whose Body? by Dorothy L.