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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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First published: 1928
Pages: 216

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Old Mossy-Face
10:21
The Queen is Out
8:39
Hearts Count More Than Diamonds
35:54
Lord Peter Leads a Club
14:19
--And Finds the Club Suit Blocked
21:54
A Card of Re-Entry
30:03
The Curse of Scotland
35:02
Lord Peter Leads Through Strength
34:36
Knave High
22:37
Lord Peter Forces a Card
19:49
Lord Peter Clears Trumps
21:09
Lord Peter Turns a Trick
19:14
Spades are Trumps
31:22
Grand Slam in Spades
20:21
Shuffle the Cards and Deal Again
23:39
Quadrille
25:47
Parker Plays a Hand
30:44
Picture Cards
48:47
Lord Peter Plays Dummy
28:00
Ann Dorland Goes Misère
27:19
Lord Peter Calls a Bluff
21:44
The Cards on the Table
20:52

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was published in 1928 and is one of Sayers's most economical Lord Peter Wimsey novels. The setup is set inside a London gentleman's club, the Bellona, which caters to ex-officers of the Great War. General Fentiman, an elderly member, has been found dead in an armchair in the club library on Armistice Day, presumably of natural causes. Then it emerges that his sister, who left her fortune to whichever of them outlived the other, has also just died, and the exact timing of the two deaths matters enormously for the inheritance.

Lord Peter is brought in to determine which of the two siblings died first. The investigation requires patient medical inquiry, careful timing, and a certain amount of social maneuvering inside the Bellona's regimented atmosphere. The book is set entirely in upper-class Edwardian-survival London, and the Bellona Club itself is one of Sayers's most fully imagined settings. The eventual reveal is satisfying. The shell-shock material around Peter and several of the younger ex-officers is handled with unusual seriousness for the period.