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Clouds of Witness

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Chapter 1: Of His Malice Aforethought
69:04
Chapter 2: The Green-Eyed Cat
60:31
Chapter 3: Mudstains and Bloodstains
63:15
Chapter 4: —And His Daughter, Much-Afraid
43:25
Chapter 5: The Rue St. Honoré and the Rue de la Paix
42:20
Chapter 6: Mary Quite Contrary
34:11
Chapter 7: The Club and the Bullet
33:15
Chapter 8: Mr. Parker Takes Notes
10:33
Chapter 9: Goyles
38:22
Chapter 10: Nothing Abides at the Noon
35:03
Chapter 11: Meribah
43:53
Chapter 12: The Alibi
40:19
Chapter 13: Manon
21:06
Chapter 14: The Edge of the Axe Towards Him
41:53
Chapter 15: Bar Falling
15:28
Chapter 16: The Second String
15:30
Chapter 17: The Eloquent Dead
19:49
Chapter 18: The Speech for the Defense
37:57
Chapter 19: Who Goes Home?
15:22

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Clouds of Witness was published in 1926 and is the second Lord Peter novel. The setup is more personal than the first book. Peter's older brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, has been arrested for the murder of Denis Cathcart, the fiancé of their sister Lady Mary Wimsey, at the family country estate of Riddlesdale Lodge during a Yorkshire shooting party. The Duke refuses to explain his movements on the night of the killing because doing so would compromise the reputation of a married woman. Peter must clear his brother's name without his brother's cooperation.

The novel is more legally textured than Whose Body? Sayers had been reading parliamentary procedure and uses it well. The case eventually reaches the House of Lords for a peer-of-the-realm trial, one of the last in English legal history. The investigation involves a Soviet-leaning agitator group, a poaching local farmer, and Lady Mary's complicated romantic life. Bunter is in fine form. The novel signals Sayers's growing seriousness about the form. Stronger than the debut and a clear step forward in the canon.