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The chief character, Lord Peter Wimsey, goes to the Bellona Club to have a meal with an old friend of his, ninety-year old General Fentiman. In great surprise, he finds the aged man fully dressed by the fire in full rigor mortis. A question arises concerning the time of death and the situation develops into a serious murder investigation. Wimsey sometimes seemed to have a supercilious attitude as a monocled aristocrat and sometimes became a sort of professional detective. His family motto was, ""As my whimsy takes me."" Lord Peter has exceptional help from Bunter, his valet, who had served under him in WWI. We can listen to how they worked together to reach a decision.

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) was an author of novels, short stories, poetry collections, essays, reviews, and translations. Although she was a noted Christian scholar, she is most known for her detective fiction. Born in 1893, Sayers was one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford University. An acquaintance of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers shared with them an interest in the position of the committed Christian in an increasingly scientific milieu. The creator of the beloved detective Lord Peter Wimsey, she also included among her works a translation of Dante and a BBC series of radio plays on the life of Jesus. Her first book featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Whose Body?, was published in 1923 and over the next twenty years more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared. Dorothy L. Sayers is recognized as one of the greatest mystery writers of the twentieth century. She died in 1957, but her books continue to enthrall readers today. John Rayburn is a veteran broadcaster. He served as a news/sports anchor and show host, and his TV newscast achieved the largest Share of Audience figures of any major-market TV newscast in the nation. John is a member of a Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

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