Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love. The woman he is in love with doesn’t belong to aristocracy, but this is not what bothers Lord Peter, and he doesn’t care what his family might say. The trouble is, she is suspected of poisoning her ex-lover, and the case is watertight. She is saved by a miracle: the jury fails to agree upon an apparently obvious verdict, but the second trial is to take place in a month. The miracle won’t happen twice.
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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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