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A review by melissa_who_reads
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
4.0
A bit long winded at times, but a clever plot. I enjoyed the beginning and the end, and felt it got bogged down a bit in the middle. And pages of Lord Peter and Harriet solving a cipher ... well, I didn't grasp the concept of the cipher nor was I that interested in how it worked ... and having at first decided they needed an expert, they worked it out fairly quickly when the expert turned out not to be available.
Harriet is on a walking tour after her acquittal from murder charges. She's trying to work out the plot of her new novel, and getting a lot of fresh air after her ordeal -- and getting away from the attentions of Lord Peter Whimsey. And what does she do? She stumbles on a corpse. And because the corpse is about to be covered by the tide, she takes photos and removes some items to prove that it existed.
She is delayed getting to the police, and the tide is well and truly up by the time they are informed. The body doesn't reappear for some days. In the meantime, it is discovered it is a hired dancer in the big hotel in the larger town ... who was engaged to a much older and quite wealthy woman.
Lord Peter shows up, having been notified by friends in the newspaper business, and detecting the ways and means of the murder made to look like suicide begins. Once you know the main riddle, the plot comes apart ...
A classic, but not one of my favorites of her works.
Harriet is on a walking tour after her acquittal from murder charges. She's trying to work out the plot of her new novel, and getting a lot of fresh air after her ordeal -- and getting away from the attentions of Lord Peter Whimsey. And what does she do? She stumbles on a corpse. And because the corpse is about to be covered by the tide, she takes photos and removes some items to prove that it existed.
She is delayed getting to the police, and the tide is well and truly up by the time they are informed. The body doesn't reappear for some days. In the meantime, it is discovered it is a hired dancer in the big hotel in the larger town ... who was engaged to a much older and quite wealthy woman.
Lord Peter shows up, having been notified by friends in the newspaper business, and detecting the ways and means of the murder made to look like suicide begins. Once you know the main riddle, the plot comes apart ...
A classic, but not one of my favorites of her works.