Clouds of Witness (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Overview

The arrest of his brother, Gerald the Duke of Denver, for murder plunges Lord Peter Wimsey into a treacherous world where nothing is as it seems. Every new clue only compounds the mystery. When Captain Denis Cathcart, fiancé to Lord Peter Wimsey's sister, Lady Mary, is discovered dead outside the family's shooting lodge in Yorkshire, Wimsey must unravel a complex web of lies, deceit, and seemingly random events to find the killer, even as the Duke refuses to cooperate and Lady Mary seems to be hiding something.

Clouds of Witness, the second novel by one of the most renowned mystery writers of all time, is a fast-paced, sophisticated must-read mystery for any fan of the genre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959891345
Publisher:	Warbler Classics
Publication date:	02/14/2023
Series:	A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	245
Sales rank:	884,877
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. Her blue-blooded sleuth romps cheerfully through 1920s and 1930s high society. Arguably the best of the leading "Golden Age" crime writers, Sayers was also a distinguished theologian and classical scholar whose translations of Dante are still in print today.

Date of Birth:

June 13, 1893

Date of Death:

December 17, 1957

Place of Birth:

Oxford, England

Education:

B.A., Oxford University, 1915; M.A., B.C.L., 1920

Table of Contents

Contents

Chapter I. "Of His Malice Aforethought"

Chapter II. The Green-Eyed Cat

Chapter III. Mudstains and Bloodstains

Chapter IV. -And His Daughter, Much-Afraid 

Chapter V. The Rue St. Honoré and the Rue de la Paix

Chapter VI. Mary Quite Contrary

Chapter VII. The Club and the Bullet

Chapter VIII. Mr. Parker Takes Notes

Chapter IX. Goyles

Chapter X. Nothing Abides at the Noon

Chapter XI. Meribah

Chapter XII. The Alibi

Chapter XIII. Manon

Chapter XIV. The Edge of the Axe Towards Him

Chapter XV. Bar Falling

Chapter XVI. The Second String

Chapter XVII. The Eloquent Dead

Chapter XVIII. The Speech for the Defence

Chapter XIX. Who Goes Home?

Biographical Note

Editorial Reviews

"One of the greatest mystery story writers of the [twentieth] century."

-Los Angeles Times

"Sayers gave [the detective novel] a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any other writer of her age to make the genre intellectually respectable."

-P. D. James

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