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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
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The Lord Peter Wimsey series almost feels like Dorothy Sayers channeled Agatha Christie and stole one of P.G. Wodehouse's characters. <--that's a compliment. I'm not trying to say Sayers plagiarized anything, for the love of god!
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The aforementioned "unpleasantness" starts when an elderly gentleman at Lord Peter's club is found dead in his favorite chair - surely of natural causes!
But things get sticky when it is discovered that it is necessary to determine when exactly he died, as that means the difference between who inherits his sister's fortune.
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I could try to explain it, but I'd just botch the job.
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Peter tries to juggle the responsibility of being a good friend against the responsibility of finding out the truth, and ends up in what looks to be quite a pickle.
Of course, this is a cozy mystery not some dark pulp fiction novel, so you know he'll sort it all out eventually.
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Also, and I say this because I thought the first book was a tad dry, every book in the this series seems to be better than the last.
Recommended for fans of the old cozy mysteries.
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The aforementioned "unpleasantness" starts when an elderly gentleman at Lord Peter's club is found dead in his favorite chair - surely of natural causes!
But things get sticky when it is discovered that it is necessary to determine when exactly he died, as that means the difference between who inherits his sister's fortune.
![description](https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1722178981ra/35794006.gif)
I could try to explain it, but I'd just botch the job.
![description](https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1722179197ra/35794022.gif)
Peter tries to juggle the responsibility of being a good friend against the responsibility of finding out the truth, and ends up in what looks to be quite a pickle.
Of course, this is a cozy mystery not some dark pulp fiction novel, so you know he'll sort it all out eventually.
![description](https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1722179197ra/35794023.gif)
Also, and I say this because I thought the first book was a tad dry, every book in the this series seems to be better than the last.
Recommended for fans of the old cozy mysteries.
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I never thought about a Tommy & Tuppence kind of thing, but that makes sense.
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I'd thought I'd read Harriet was an author insert/proxy but not a vain one (waits for groan), but I haven't read any of the posthumous stuff which came after Businessman's Honeymoon (I did read the short story antholgoies, but not sure where they fit). Strong Poison has her intro, but Have his Carcase and Gaudy Nights give her more focus.
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I agree that I have a soft spot for Bunter, too.
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