It is colored with dialect, which can be difficult to understand, inhibiting the reader’s understanding of the story at times. Fortunately, this writing style makes the novel a quicker read and allows for the personalities of the characters to shine through easily. The storytelling in Whose Body? is dominated by the use of dialogue. “I love trifling circumstances,” said Lord Peter, with childish delight “so many men have been hanged by trifling circumstances.” In this whodunit and “dun-to-whom” novel, human motives are called into question as the mystery unfolds. When the naked body of a deceased man wearing only spectacles is found in a bathtub, Lord Peter investigates to find the criminal responsible and to discover the identity of the victim. Sayers’s Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel that introduces the author’s most well-known character, the amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
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