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Violence
Some
Period mystery violence; murders and a fall depicted
Language
None
Period literary language; clean
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Some
Drug trade is central to the plot; some social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
Themes of class, deception, and the seedy underside of glamorous 1930s London
What this book is about
Lord Peter Wimsey takes an undercover job at Pym's Publicity — a London advertising agency where an employee was killed in a suspicious fall down the stairs. Sayers's 1933 mystery is among her sharpest satires, skewering the advertising industry while delivering a complex plot involving drug trafficking in high society.
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Drug trafficking content
Period mystery violence
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