Lord Peter Views the Body

Lord Peter Views the Body is the first collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. The character of Wimsey had become so popular that Sayers started writing short stories about him, which were then published in magazines like Pearson’s.

There are twelve stories in this collection about mysteries as varied as the consequences of several peculiar wills, to the hazardous breakup of a secret society.