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Unnatural Death

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 3

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Unnatural Death

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey.

His third appearance is a story of murder in a most respectable seaside resort. 'No sign of foul play,' says Dr Carr after the post-mortem on Agatha Dawson. The case is closed. But Lord Peter Wimsey is not satisfied . . .

With no clues to work on, he begins his own investigation. No clues, that is, until the sudden, senseless murder of Agatha's maid. What is going on in the mysterious Mrs Forrest's Mayfair flat? And can Wimsey catch a desperate murderer before he himself becomes one of the victims?

©1927 Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton Classics Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives

Critic reviews

"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit." (P. D. James)
"I admire her novels . . . she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail" (Ruth Rendell)
"D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers." (E. C. Bentley, Daily Telegraph)
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Not sure if I liked the story because the narration kept getting in the way. I mostly admire narrators who come in varying degrees of quality but this time I really felt myself being repelled from the story by the very awful voices this narrator affected, especially the voice for Wimsey and the frequently strange emphases she chose to apply to the text. Sometimes I couldn’t tell if Dorothy was overboard in some dialogue or it was just being strangely interpreted by Jane McDowell. In any case I could not wait for the ordeal to be over and I suspect that I missed out on enjoying an above average mystery. But as I said I’m not really sure. I hope there is another audio book by a different narrator.

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