This fully annotated edition of "The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?" includes:
* More than 500 footnotes (20,000 words) on English history, aristocracy, religion, society and literature.
* Essays about the Argentina economic boom, Adolf Beck, English antisemitism, William Palmer, Edmond De La Pommerais, the Brides in the Bath, and how Sayers invented Lord Peter Wimsey.
* Three maps of London showing locations important to the novel.
* Timelines of the life of Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey's cases.

We've Got a Body in the Bath!

WHEN A CHURCH ARCHITECT finds a naked man in his Battersea bathroom, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case! The aristocratic amateur detective, accompanied by his camera-bearing manservant Bunter, follows a trail of blood as he pursues stock market manipulation, medical malpractice and Lord Brocklebury's edition of Dante. But the curious case of the bathing body turns darker and deadlier as Lord Peter uncovers a ghastly crime.

One of the great mystery novelists of her time, Dorothy L. Sayers portrayed the rich and poor, urban and rural Britain of the 1920s and '30s with a gimlet eye sharpened by her Oxford education (and at a time when few women were admitted there).

Published in 1923, "Whose Body?" was a book "good" women writers would never dream of writing. One clue about the nude man's body found in the bath was too suggestive and had to be toned down before publication. Other scenes reflected Sayers' love of the macabre Grand Guignol theatre.

The Britain that was familiar to readers of that time has vanished, but you can experience it afresh only in this edition from Peschel Press.

"The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?" contains more than 500 footnotes, describing unusual words, common expressions, cultural references, cultural institutions, objects, and people. There are also three maps created exclusively for this book describing important locations, and original essays about Sayers, her world, and the creation of Lord Peter. "The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?" makes a unique gift for a Sayers fan, and a wonderful reintroduction to the compelling world she created.

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