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by Dorothy L. Sayers
An aristocrat with a passion for detective work has to clear the Duke, his brother, from a charge of murder.
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Wimsey, Peter Death Bredon, D.S.O.; born 1890, 2nd son of Mortimer Gerald Bredon Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, and of Honoria Lucasta, daughter of Francis Delagardie of Bellingham Manor, Hants.
Educated: Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (1st class honours, Sch. of Mod. Hist. 1912); served with H.M. Forces 1914/18 (Major, Rifle Brigade).
Author of: “Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula,” “The Murderer’s Vade-Mecum,” etc.
Recreations: Criminology; bibliophily; music; cricket.
Clubs: Marlborough; Egotists’.
Residences: 110A Piccadilly, W.; Bredon Hall, Duke’s Denver, Norfolk.
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