Unnatural Death
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- First published
- 1927
- Pages
- 264
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Chapter 1: Overheard
21:19 -
Chapter 2: Miching Mallecho
15:31 -
Chapter 3: A Use for Spinsters
26:45 -
Chapter 4: A Bit Mental
21:49 -
Chapter 5: Gossip
22:31 -
Chapter 6: Found Dead
38:22 -
Chapter 7: Ham and Brandy
25:33 -
Chapter 8: Concerning Crime
23:36 -
Chapter 9: The Will
14:53 -
Chapter 10: The Will Again
36:58 -
Chapter 11: Cross-Roads
40:03 -
Chapter 12: A Tale of Two Spinsters
26:09 -
Chapter 13: Halleluljah
19:54 -
Chapter 14: Sharp Quillets of the Law
29:24 -
Chapter 15: Temptation of St. Peter
22:54 -
Chapter 16: A Cast-Iron Alibi
16:23 -
Chapter 17: The Country Lawyer's Story
25:58 -
Chapter 18: The London Lawyer's Story
28:05 -
Chapter 19: Gone Away
39:16 -
Chapter 20: Murder
22:55 -
Chapter 21: By What Means
31:31 -
Chapter 22: A Case of Conscience
39:59 -
Chapter 23: And Smote Him, Thus
36:09
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Unnatural Death was published in 1927 and is the third Lord Peter Wimsey novel. The setup is one of the cleverer in the series. A country doctor named Carr tells Lord Peter at a dinner that he is certain a wealthy elderly patient of his, Agatha Dawson, was killed, although her death looked entirely natural. There is no medical evidence of foul play. There is no apparent motive. The case has been closed. Peter and his friend Miss Climpson, an elderly investigator he has set up in a London agency specializing in inheritance cases, begin to trace the financial implications of the death. The eventual unraveling depends on a piece of British inheritance law that Sayers takes seriously and explains in genuine detail, plus a method of murder that does not show in autopsy and that requires the perpetrator to have specific medical training. Miss Climpson's letters home are some of the funniest material Sayers ever wrote. The book turns on a moral question: is a killing still wrong if the victim was already dying? Sayers thinks it is.
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Book facts
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- 1927
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Books
- Series
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Kirsten Wever