Clouds of Witness - Sayers, Dorothy L
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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…mehr

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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.
Autorenporträt
Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957. www.sayers.org.uk