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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, Book 4

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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: John Rayburn
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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.

©2012 Dorothy L. Sayers (P)2024 John D. Rayburn Amateur Sleuths Historical Mystery Feel-Good
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The narrator's performance was quite without rhythm or tonal variation. sentences and paragraphs all ran together.

The narrator's American accent - entirely inappropriate to the setting of the story.

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