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Unnatural Death: Lord Peter Wimsey Book 3 (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries) Paperback – 1 Nov 1982

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks; New Impression edition (1 Nov. 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0450001016
  • ISBN-13: 978-0450001017
  • Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 2 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
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She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit. (P. D. James)

D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers. (E. C. Bentley Daily Telegraph)

I admire her novels . . . she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail. (Ruth Rendell)

She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller. (Minette Walters)

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The classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.

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4.0 out of 5 starsUnnatural Death
By S Riaz HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 31 Dec. 2013
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This is the third Lord Peter Wimsey novel. Wimsey and Charles Parker are interrupted, while in a teashop, by a doctor who overhears them talking about crime. He relates a tale of how he was treating an elderly lady for cancer, whose niece insisted was much nearer than death than he felt she was. When she died suddenly, without leaving a will, the doctor insisted on an autopsy, leading to bad feeling with both the niece, Miss Whittaker, and the local community. Indeed, his actions led to him having to leave the area and begin work elsewhere. Of course, Lord Peter is immediately intrigued - how many people do 'get away with murder'? However, Parker is not conviced there is a case to answer. Presumably, as an officer of the law he had enough real work to be getting on with, but Wimsey is determined to investigate.

In this entertaining novel, Lord Peter uses the indefatigable Miss Climpson as his "ears and tongue and especially nose." A spinsterish lady, much in the style of a slightly younger Miss Marple, she is an enquiry agent for Lord Peter; settling herself into a boarding house near where the elderly lady died and sending letters (which you feel the author had great fun writing) reporting on the people and places involved. Before long there is a further murder and even Parker is convinced that something is amiss. Did Miss Whittaker hurry her aunt along to make sure she inherited? Who is the mysterious Mrs Forrest? Is Lord Peter Wimsey himself going to become a victim?

This is a real puzzle of a mystery, with endless clues and suspects and sometimes you do feel a little bogged down in information. However, the real fun and sense of righting a wrong does shine through and you happily embark on the journey with Lord Peter, Parker, Miss Climpson and, of course, Bunter.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWell done Wimsey !
By Kindle Customer on 16 Mar. 2017
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A murderer who weaves a Web of disguise ;A hint of lesbian love ; some excellent stereotypical character description with appearances by Parker and Miss Climpson and a hint of Bunter.Great read .
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4.0 out of 5 starsA good yarn.
By RobertG on 14 May 2017
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A good yarn
Of its time but as good as Agatha Christie and the plot is more plausible.
I shall read the rest of the series.
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4.0 out of 5 starsIngenious if it was plausible!
By Richard of York on 13 May 2017
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Like all the early novels, a bit naive but it's years since I last read it so I enjoyed it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
By Peter Dyche on 24 May 2017
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Superb quality and excellent service
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5.0 out of 5 starsReally good
By Aletheuon TOP 500 REVIEWER on 9 May 2014
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This, the third of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, concerns the murder of a dying person which is passed off as a natural death. A doctor tells Wimsey and his friend Parker about one of his patients, Miss Agatha Dawson, dying of terminal cancer, who actually died surprisingly quickly after the diagnosis. Questioning the cause of death got the doctor into trouble. Wimsey is interested enough to investigate, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Climpson, who has aided his investigations before.
Wimsey finds out that the patient's great-niece, Mary Whittaker, was her carer and her heir, but that there was no actual will and an imminent change in the law could mean her money going to the state. The niece needed her aunt to die before the change in the law took effect. The investigation provokes the great-niece to take action.
Wiimsey does solve the mystery, but no-one is particularly grateful and it seems that his interference has provokes further evil to take place. There are several deaths and attempted murders. Wimsey wonders - and the book invites us to consider - whether the investigation was worth it.
The story deals in some pretty modern-seeming themes for a book written in the 1920s, and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that life and prejudice go in circles. Although it is implied and not actually stated in the book, Miss Dawson and her `friend' Miss Findlater are lifetime lesbian partners, something which is simply accepted by all and is never shown as unacceptable. In fact, everyone seems to regard the two elderly ladies with great respect and admiration. Miss Climpson, however, finds the great-niece's similar traits an indication of her bad character.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars
By Anne Dean on 5 Mar. 2015
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Going through the series OK so far
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5.0 out of 5 starsMurder with style
By Kurt Messick HALL OF FAME on 12 Dec. 2005
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Dorothy Sayers, a.k.a. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, one of the first women to ever be granted a degree from Oxford University, created one of the leading figures in, and indeed in so doing helped to create the genre of, the British mystery novels. Lord Peter Wimsey, an elegant, refined London-based aristocrat with a taste for books and a penchant for the piano, is again here the leading figure, in 'Unnatural Death', also published as 'The Dawson Pedigree'.
Wimsey is an old Etonian, Balliol Oxford (of course), served with distinction in His Majesty's forces during the War (this book having been written in 1927, I shall leave it to your good services to deduce which War), who resides both town and country somewhat fashionably, and takes great pride in the ancient family history (by the time one gets to be the fifteenth Duke of anything, the family can be easily considered ancient). Wimsey has a vocation as criminologist, not out of necessity, surely, and not by training either (for such training did not formally exist, but, as an Oxford Arts man, he was trained for most anything intellectual, or at least, that is what an Oxford Arts man would tell you). An interesting addition to the beginning of the book is a short biographical sketch of the fictional Wimsey by his equally-fictional uncle.
All of this, of course, is but preamble to the latest mystery to come calling upon Lord Wimsey.Read more ›
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