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Mystery · 1927 · PG

Unnatural Death

by Dorothy L. Sayers

An old woman's natural death seems too convenient — Lord Peter Wimsey disagrees.

For10+GenreMysteryLength264 pagesRead time~7 hours

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Violence

Barely any

Murder; death

Language

None

No profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

A lesbian relationship suggested rather than depicted

Substance Use

None

Social drinking

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

Themes of greed, hidden relationships, and the law's blind spots

What this book is about

Sayers's 1927 Lord Peter mystery (also published as The Dawson Pedigree) in which an elderly woman's apparently natural death is revealed to be murder. The murderer is a woman in a lesbian relationship, handled with Sayers's characteristic obliqueness. For all ages.

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