...Early in the morning you go to your bathroom and discover the corpse of an unknown person, wearing nothing except perhaps a pince-nez...

Dorothy L. Sayers is the star of the classic English detective story, a master of riddles, author of more than a dozen detective novels. She brought originality, intellectual sophistication, liveliness and wit to the genre. The main character of her novels, Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocrat, erudite and intellectual, masterfully investigating complicated crimes, is able to play a deadly joke with the darkest and cruelest of villains, destroying his plans.