"Written with distinction and wit, and is as much as psychological story as an experiment in detection. It has all the excitement which a detective story should offer." -- The Spectator The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier...
"The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries." -- Chicago Tribune The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing...
Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, sought solace on a lonely beach. It was totally deserted - except for the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. She photographed the corpse and took what few clues she could find before the tide...