Dorothy L. Sayers is called – by right – one of the queens of the detective story genre. Lord Peter Wimsey – her own version of a sleuth who never makes mistakes – deserves no less admiration than his more famous colleagues Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, being a person of an incredibly sharp mind and high moral values. He is also an aristocrat, but not the arrogant kind: he enjoys mixing up with all kinds of common mortals and treats them – naturally and genuinely – as his equals. He can be quite stern when his investigation requires it, but most of the time he is just a gentle person anyone would love to spend some time with.
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Another one of those great Hercule Poirot mysteries. A young, beautiful lady hires the famous detective to do, in her own words, something fantastic.
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