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Ladataan... Whose Body? (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1923; vuoden 2009 painos)Tekijä: Dorothy L. Sayers
TeostiedotKuka ja mistä? (tekijä: Dorothy L. Sayers) (1923)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I really didn't care for the book. Lord Peter is an aristocrat who dabbles in mysteries in order to pass the time. The story lost my interest after the first chapter. There was too much superficial "witty" dialogue and not enough character development. ( ) A dead body shows up in a person’s bathtub, it just so happens that that person has connections including to a second son of a duke that has time on his hands and has taken up sleuthing as a hobby. Whose Body? is the first book of Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsy series in which the titular character investigates the mysterious body and later a mysterious disappearance as well. This was a very engaging mystery from the start especially since Sayers close to the beginning either provides information that someone is either a massive red herring or the obvious culprit, but the astute reader to realizes this feels the need keep going to find out which. The main character, Lord Peter Wimsy, is overall a good protagonist to follow and has some very well characterized supporting characters in his butler Bunter and police detective Charles Parker that help to spread the narrative. While there are some characteristics of Lord Peter that I personally is his speech patterns of the stereotypical snotty Englishman especially when talking with other snotty noblemen of his same age, however I like that Sayers in making him a veteran of the Great War—as it was then known—that suffered recurrent bouts of shell shock—a.k.a. PTSD—which over a century later connects this fictional character to our world today. Frankly, the mystery was good, the main character was good, and Sayers writing was good not only making me enjoy this book but also to look out for more Lord Peter books. Whose Body? is an interesting mystery with a good main character and engaging writing by Dorothy L. Sayers that got me hooked into seeing what future adventures Lord Peter Wimsy has. Entertaining but far-fetched story has way too much talk. It's a good thing Sayers knows how to make that talk rather interesting and informative, but the crime at the center of the novel is made unnecessarily complicated, and it is that unnecessary complication that leads to the criminal's undoing. The character of Lord Peter Wimsey is interesting enough, especially his post-WW 1 shell shock. But I'm not sure this is a series that would interest me that much going forward. I'm a bit surprised that this series is not more popular. Sayers is a great storyteller, her characters are well-drawn, even if they do seem to have caricature names, especially Peter Wimsey. One could easily imagine a good comic actor carrying a show based on these books, and even with all the very British humor and situations, it would be successful in the US right now. This book is a bit like Agatha Christie's Body in the Library story, in that it starts out with an unknown body that appears as if by magic in the home of a fairly well-to-do person. The book introduces Lord Peter Wimsey, whose hobby/career is crime-solving, with the help of his manservant who is keen on early forensic science. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML:In the debut mystery in Dorothy L. Sayers's acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series, the case of a dead bather draws Lord Peter into the 1st of many puzzling mysteries Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London's greatest sleuthâ??and he's about to encounter his oddest case yet. A strange corpse has appeared in a suburban architect's bathroom, stark naked save for an incongruous pince-nez. When Wimsey arrives on the scene, he is confronted with a once-in-a-lifetime puzzle. The police suspect that the bathtub's owner is the murderer, but Wimsey's investigation quickly reveals that the case is much stranger than anyone could have predicted. Published in 1923, during detective fiction's Golden Age, Whose Body? introduced a character and a series that would make Dorothy L. Sayers famous. To this day, Lord Peter remains 1 of the genre's most beloved and brilliant characters. Whose Body? is the 1st book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton Colle Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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