Clouds of Witness: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery (Dover Mystery Classics)
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Brief Description: XV. Bar Falling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVI. The Second String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVII. The Eloquent Dead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XVIII. The Speech for the Defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIX. Who Goes Home? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brief Description: "This Dover edition, first published in 2022, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, in 1926, and first published as Clouds of witnesses in the United States by Lincoln MacVeagh-The Dial Press, New York, in 1927."--Title page verso. Jacket Description/Back: The grouse season has begun, and Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, Gerald, the Duke of Denver, has descended upon the Wimsey family retreat in rustic Riddlesdale with a small hunting party. Captain Denis Cathcart, the fiancé of Lord Peter's sister, Mary, is found shot dead at the door of the lodge's conservatory, and the accused murderer is none other than the Duke of Denver. Faced with a multiplicity of clues, suspects, and scandalous behavior, Lord Wimsey and Chief Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard work together to solve this cozy atmospheric and suspenseful whodunit to clear the Wimsey family's name. Ranked with Agatha Christie as a master of the English crime fiction and mystery genres, Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) wrote eleven novels featuring the aristocratic gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Publisher Marketing: The grouse season has begun, and Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver, has descended upon the Wimsey family retreat in rustic Riddlesdale village with a small hunting party. Captain Denis Cathcart, Wimsey's soon-to-be brother-in-law, is found shot dead at the door of the lodge's conservatory, and the accused murderer is Gerald, the Duke of Denver. Faced with a multiplicity of clues, suspects, and scandalous behavior, Lord Wimsey and Chief Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard work together to solve this cozy atmospheric and suspenseful whodunit. Ranked with Agatha Christie as a master of the English crime fiction and mystery genres, Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) wrote eleven novels featuring the aristocratic gentleman detective, Lord Peter Wimsey. |
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