“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

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-listen mystery for any fan of the genre.

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.