🔎 If you like mysteries with dapper gentlemen sleuths, vintage CSI, and Golden Age fiction with themes that still resonate today, you’ll enjoy The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers.
🎩 Lord Peter Wimsey is the epitome of the dapper gentleman sleuth. He hides his sharp intellect under a foppish and sometimes silly manner. In many ways, he’s a 1920s update to The Scarlet Pimpernel, a mystery-solving Sir Percy Blakeney.
☠️ When a veteran of the Great War dies, Wimsey is asked to look into the time of death, a simple matter that turns complex as a murder is revealed.
⚡️ From shell shock (what we’d call PTSD) to the shifting cultural mores, impacts of the Great War reverberate throughout the book. There is also a look at crime scene forensics, 1920s style.
🕵️♂️ Read-alike recommendations include more books with gentlemen sleuths as well as my own book with that explores shell shock, Murder in Black Tie.
❓Have you read any Dorothy L. Sayers?
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🕰️ Behind Closed Doors of the English Country House: Ch 11-13 of Murder at Archly Manor
📸 Photographing 1920s High Society: Ch 9 and 10 of Murder at Archly Manor
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Murder at Archly Manor: Ch 5 and 6 + Mystery Books set in the world of Antiques
Murder at Archly Manor: Ch 4 + Sherlock Holmes Reading Recommendations
Murder at Archly Manor: Ch 3
Murder at Archly Manor Chapter by Ch: 1 and 2
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