Books : Clouds of Witness
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by: Dorothy L. Sayers
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061043536
ISBN: 0061043532
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 01, 1995
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Sales Rank: 254505
Studio: HarperTorch
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Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thrill of the hunt -- until the game turned up human and quite dead. He lay among the chrysanthemums, wore slippers and a dinner jacket and was Lord Peter's brother-in-law-to-be. His accused murderer was Wimsey's own brother, and if murder set all in the family wasn't enough to boggle the unflappable Lord Wimsey, perhaps a few twists of fate would be -- a mysterious vanishing midnight letter from Egypt...a grieving fiancee with suitcase in hand...and a bullet destined for one very special Wimsey.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A most enjoyable mystery with delightful characters!
"Clouds of Witness" was a very delightful book! In both the mystery and the characters, I thought Sayers came through brilliantly!
Lord Peter Wimsey (the main character and detective) is truly a humorous, clever, thoughtful, and lovable character! He breezes through life, always seeing the amusement and humor in situations, but doesn't lack the ability to understand people and events for the gravity they may hold.
Wimsey himself was a delightful enough character to hold my ... Read More
Rating: - Not the best of Sayers, but interesting
If you are a Dorothy L. Sayers fan, this is an important piece of the Wimsey family history--particularly that of Lady Mary and Chief Inspector Parker. I had put off reading this and several other novels for a long time because (1) they didn't include Harriet Vane, and (2) I felt Sayers later works were better than her early stories. I still feel the latter is true, although that should not dissuade the reader from perusing these earlier mysteries.
I give Clouds of Witness four stars ... Read More
Rating: - Somewhere in the lower-middle of Sayer's works
Here we have another Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, (before his marriage to Harriet), where his brother, The Duke of Denver, is brought to trial for murder. And it is an unusual trial indeed since members of the British nobility who were charged with murder, during the era of Lord Peter Wimsey, had to be tried, not at the Old Bailey, but rather by the full House of Lords!
The Duke of Denver, ("Jerry" to his friends), has purchased a small hunting lodge on the edge of the moors and his guests ... Read More
Rating: - Cloudy "witness"
The worst nightmare for a detective is having a solid case... against a member of your own family. Dorothy Sayers imagined such a story for Lord Peter Wimsey in her second mystery novel, "Clouds of Witness," a solid, twisting whodunnit full of lies, affairs and deception
Peter is on vacation when he finds out that his brother, The Duke of Denver (informally "Gerald"), is on trial for murder -- he had a blowup with his sister Mary's fiancee, Denis Cathcart, upon learning that Cathcart was ... Read More
Rating: - Really Enjoyable
The story is a good one, but it is the dialogue that makes this a really great story.
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