Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, #1)

by Dorothy L Sayers

[tellemonstar]

Full review here.

I was interested to read Whose Body? because of it being 90 year this year since the very first time it was published. Unfortunately I think that might have been why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I had hoped to.

Lord Peter Wimsey is odd. Very odd. For instance, he sprouts poetry in the middle of speaking about something, without any warning. It’s rather discombobulating. (I love that word) I found it tended to pull me out of the story rather than add to it. Also he acts like he is stupid in public, then later in private with his close friends he shows his true intellect.

One thing I really enjoyed about Whose Body? was the mystery itself. It was well thought out and I certainly didn’t have the culprit figured out within the first few chapters. You worked it out mostly as Lord Peter did, which was good and it wasn’t the most obvious person, but nor was it just some random person either. It was a very interesting mystery, which is definitely one reason why it was after midnight when I finished reading it – I needed to know who did it and how they had done it.