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. People also know her plays and essays.The first Wimsey novel, and one of the most consistently entertaining.
Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. This renowned author, and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages. Detective stories of known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers usually feature the amateur investigator Peter Wimsey, lord she also well translated Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
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