Dorothy L. Sayers’s Unnatural Death (1927) begins with an argument in a restaurant: a doctor insists that the death of an elderly woman was suspicious, despite official indifference. Lord Peter Wimsey can’t resist, and soon he and the redoubtable Miss Climpson are investigating a case in which the method of murder is as baffling as the motive. Sayers was among the first crime writers to research actual medical science to construct her plots.
The novel also marks the expanded role of Miss Climpson — one of crime fiction’s great supporting characters. Download the free EPUB for a sharp, witty, and genuinely clever Wimsey adventure.