 Blackstone Audiobooks presents Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers The book's dedication reads, to M. J. Dear Jim, this book is your fault. If it had not been for your brutal insistence, Lord Peter would never have staggered through to the end of this inquiry. Pray consider that he thanks you with his accustomed suavity, yours ever, and D. L. S. CHAPTER ONE Oh, damn! said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. Hi, driver! The taxi-man, irritated at receiving this appeal while negotiating the intricacies of turning into lower Regent Street across the route of a nineteen-bus, a thirty-eight B, and a bicycle, bent an unwilling ear. I've left the cattle-hole behind, said Lord Peter, deprecatingly, uncommonly careless of me. Do you mind putting back to where we came from?" To the Saville Club, sir. No, one hundred and ten Piccadilly, just beyond. Thank you." I thought you was in a hurry, said the man, overcome with a sense of injury. I'm afraid it's an awkward place to turn in, said Lord Peter, answering the thought rather than the words. His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat as white maggots breed from gorgonzola. The taxi, under the severe eye of a policeman, revolved by slow jerks with a noise like the grinding of teeth. The block of new, perfect and expensive flats in which Lord Peter dwelt upon the second floor stood directly opposite the Green Park, in a spot for many years occupied by the skeleton of a frustrate commercial enterprise. As Lord Peter let himself in, he heard his man's voice in the library, uplifted in that throttled stridency peculiar to well-trained persons using the telephone. I believe that's his lordship just coming in again, if your grace would kindly hold the line a moment. What is it, Bunter? Her grace has just called up from Denver, my lord. I was just saying your lordship had gone to the sale when I heard your lordship's latchkey. Thanks, said Lord Peter, and you might find me my catalogue, would you? I think I must have left it in my bedroom or on the desk. He sat down to the telephone with an air of leisurely courtesy, as though it were an acquaintance dropped in for a chat. Hello, mother, that you? Oh, there you are, dear," replied the voice of the dirger, Duchess. I was afraid I'd just missed you. Well, you had, as a matter of fact. I just started off to Brocklebury's sale to pick up a book or two, but I had to come back for the catalogue. What up? Such a quaint thing, said the duchess. I thought I'd tell you. You're no little Mr. Thipps. Thipps, said Lord Peter. Thipps. Oh, yes, the little architect man was doing the ch— Sample complete. Ready to continue?