Sayers delivers as usual with this one, Lord Peter is ridiculous, adorable and wonderful as ever, and the plot is just the right amount of tangled and delightfully morally uncertain (it ends with people encouraging the murderer to commit suicide, which he does). Definitely my favourite part of this book was Lord Peter having a nice talk with an unattractive heiress who has been treated badly by her ex-fiance, and being unbearably kind and encouraging. There's also a delightful part where Lord Peter figures out that one of the murder suspects invented a random person as an alibi, and then pretends that they found this fictitious person, taking over the suspect's invented character to lead him off on the wrong track (I probably made that seem unnecessarily complicated, it was really funny). I also found Mr. Murbles (the solicitor Wimsey works with) especially entertaining in this book, as he gravely agrees with Lord Peter that many murderers are less reprehensible than people who combine certain wines with certain food.
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