![]() ![]() Still, no one as rich and powerful as Sir Reuben can be entirely without enemies. Sir Reuben Levy is a devoted family man, well-liked by everyone. Wimsey and his menage (butler/crime-scene technician Bunter, Wimsey’s garrulous mother the Dowager Duchess of Denver, good cop Parker, and bad cop Sugg) are introduced seamlessly and given a pair of fascinating, if less than realistic, crimes to sink their teeth into. Not only is it a satisfying mystery in its own right, but it is also an ambitious reframing of the golden-age detective as an emotionally complex character. Whose Body? is a promising debut for Dorothy L. Even the irrepressible Lord Peter Wimsey may have met his match with these fiendish crimes. The connection seems clear, but nothing in this case is straightforward. On the same blustery night, Sir Reuben Levy, the well-known financier, disappears from his home. “Indeed, my lord? That’s very gratifying.”Īlfred Thipps is distressed to find the corpse of a strange middle-aged man in his bathtub, nude except for a pince-nez-it will upset his mother so much. “Her Grace tells me that a respectable Battersea architect has discovered a dead man in his bath.” ![]()
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