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Clouds of Witness

Name: Clouds of Witness
Brand: CULTUREA
SKU: 9791041800858
Price: 21.9 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 979-1-041-80085-8

de Dorothy L. Sayers (auteur)

Maison d'édition : CULTUREA

avril 2023

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format 148 x 210 x 18 326 pages dès réception en librairie (minimum 5 jours)

21,90 €

Résumé

Clouds of Witness, published by Dorothy L. Sayers in 1926, is the second of her novels starring Lord Peter Wimsey, a wealthy aristocrat who enjoys detective work as a hobby.In this book Wimsey's skills have an immediate and personal interest when his brother Gerald, the Duke of Denver, is arrested on a charge of murder. He is accused of shooting his sister's fiancé, Denis Cathcart, in a fit of rage after discovering that Cathcart was a man who made a living by cheating at cards. The Duke has no credible alibi for the time of Cathcart's death and refuses to clarify where he was. Wimsey promptly sets to work to solve the case and exonerate his brother.One interesting feature of the story is that the Duke, as a peer of the realm, must be tried before his other peers in the House of Lords. Another is the flight across the Atlantic undertaken by Wimsey to obtain vital evidence—a year before Charles Lindbergh first made this voyage in reality.Clouds of Witness was made into a television mini-series for the BBC in 1972.

L'Auteur

Dorothy L. Sayers (auteur)

Sayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Headmaster's House on Brewer Street in Oxford. She was the daughter of Helen Mary Leigh and her husband, the Rev. Henry Sayers. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Leigh, a solicitor whose family roots were in the landed gentry in the Isle of Wight, and had been born at The Chestnuts, Millbrook, Hampshire. Her father, originally from Littlehampton, West Sussex, was a chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School.

Auteur(s) : Dorothy L. Sayers