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The Complete, Annotated Whose Body? Paperback – March 13, 2024

by Dorothy L. Sayers (Author), Bill Peschel (Editor)

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This is the 2nd edition of “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” with more footnotes, revised footnotes and essays, a gallery of book covers, more reviews, and printed in a larger format.

This fully annotated edition of “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” includes:

* More than 600 footnotes (32,000 words) on English history, aristocracy, religion, society and literature.

* Essays about the Argentina economic boom, Adolf Beck, English anti-semitism, William Palmer, Edmond De La Pommerais, the Brides in the Bath, and how Sayers invented Lord Peter Wimsey.

* Three maps of London showing locations important to the novel.

* Contemporary reviews from U.S. and British newspapers, and judgments from critics and even Sayers herself!

* A gallery of book covers from Britain, the U.S., France, Netherlands, and other nations.

* Timelines of the life of Dorothy L. Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey's cases.

* Published in the larger 6-inch by 9-inch format.

When a church architect finds a naked man in his Battersea bathroom, Lord Peter Wimsey is on the case! The aristocratic amateur detective, accompanied by his camera-bearing manservant Bunter, follows a trail of blood as he pursues stock market manipulation, medical malpractice, and Lord Brocklebury’s edition of Dante. But the curious case of the bathing body turns darker and deadlier as Lord Peter uncovers a ghastly crime.

Published in 1923, Whose Body? was Dorothy L. Sayers’ debut novel. Bill Peschel provided hundreds of footnotes to guide the reader through Lord Peter's world, describing words, objects and ideas that were familiar to Sayers' readers but obscure or unknown today.

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March 13, 2024
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6 x 0.74 x 9 inches
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1950347419
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978-1950347414

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peschel Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1950347419
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1950347414
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #3,829,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12,988 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- #14,629 in Historical Mystery
- #29,314 in Amateur Sleuths
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Bill Peschel
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Bill Peschel, like his heroes Batman and Superman, believes in truth, justice, and the American way. But he prefers to lead his crusade through words.
That’s why the Pulitzer-prize winning editor wrote about famous authors and the fun they got up to away from their desks (“Writers Gone Wild”), annotations of the novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, revivals of three books about Victorian poisoner William Palmer, and eight books of annotated fan fiction about Sherlock Holmes, including short stories about Mark Twain’s encounters with Holmes, Watson, Mycroft and Irene Adler.
As co-owner of Peschel Press with his wife, Teresa, he publishes her books on sewing and preparedness (“Sew Cloth Grocery Bags” and “Fed, Safe, and Sheltered”) and her Steppes of Mars series (“The Bride from Dairapaska” and “The White Elephant of Panschin.”
To help indie writers, he also publishes books in his Career Indie Author series and advice at https://www.careerindieauthor.com
Currently, we’re working on more Christie novels in the Complete, Annotated series, another Steppes of Mars book, and “Murder, She Watched,” about the movie adaptations of Agatha Christie, portions of which can be found at
Bill and Teresa can also be found at these places on the Interwebs. Hang out with us and see what we’re up to next: https://peschelpress.com/teresa-peschels-agatha-christie-movie-reviews/
We have our website with an offer to sign up for our newsletter (no spamming, of course) at https:www.peschelpress.com
We’re also found on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/PeschelPress
We also regularly post author quotes, book reviews, and cat photos on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/peschel_press/
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Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was a playwright, scholar, and acclaimed author of mysteries, best known for her books starring the gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
Born in Oxford, England, Sayers, whose father was a reverend, grew up in the Bluntisham rectory and won a scholarship to Oxford University where she studied modern languages and worked at the publishing house Blackwell's, which published her first book of poetry in 1916.
Years later, working as an advertising copywriter, Sayers began work on Whose Body?, a mystery novel featuring dapper detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Over the next two decades, Sayers published ten more Wimsey novels and several short stories, crafting a character whose complexity was unusual for the mystery novels of the time.
In 1936, Sayers brought Lord Peter Wimsey to the stage in a production of Busman's Honeymoon, a story which she would publish as a novel the following year. The play was so successful that she gave up mystery writing to focus on the stage, producing a series of religious works culminating in The Man Born to Be King (1941) a radio drama about the life of Jesus.
She also wrote theological essays and criticism during and after World War II, and in 1949 published the first volume of a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy (which she considered to be her best work).
Dorothy Sayers died of a heart attack in 1957.
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Customers find the book informative, with one mentioning how it explains many words and phrases. The content receives positive feedback, with one customer noting the interesting essays. The story receives mixed reactions, with some appreciating its depth while others find it tedious.

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10 customers mention informative, 8 positive, 2 negative

Customers find the book informative, appreciating its useful annotations, with one customer noting how it explains many words and phrases, while another mentions how the electronic footnotes link to the annotations.

Loved this book. Lots of helpful information....Read more

...They explain so many words and phrases, and elucidate so many references, that I have always wondered about but have never bothered to look up....Read more

...The Complete, Annotated Whose Body? has many intelligent annotations and interesting essays by Bill Peschel that help solve...Read more

...I picked up this copy because it was cheaper, but there's so many stupid annotations that you cannot enjoy the text. Big fail for me....Read more

7 customers mention content, 7 positive, 0 negative

Customers find the content of the book great, with one customer particularly appreciating the footnotes and another noting the interesting essays.

The book is great. The footnotes are a bit overdone...Read more

...3 stars for the annotated version. The essays are interesting, but the footnotes are extremely annoying and intrusive....Read more

...Thank you Bill Peschel for all your hard work. Great job !Read more

...Also included are some interesting and entertaining little essays in the back on relevant topics too extensive to fit into footnotes....Read more

5 customers mention story, 3 positive, 2 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the story of the book, with some finding it good and appreciating its depth, while others find it tedious.

A good story, but not one of the best as Sayers goes. The annotations and short essays added a lot....Read more

...However, this story was pretty tedious for me and if it was the first Peter Wimsey book I read, I likely would not have read another.Read more

...The notes to this volume make an already great story even more meaningful....Read more

...in each chapter--even if you don't read them, their presence disrupts the narrative flow....Read more

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Colin Harrison
A Book that Sayers Fans Have Needed for Some Time
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2013
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Dorothy L. Sayer was an Oxford-educated scholar and intellectual, and her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, classics of the genre, are filled with many references and phrases that today are arcane or unknown, even to well-read people. (Knowledge of Latin and French helps as well in reading DLS.) So, an annotated edition of the Lord Peter Wimsey books has been a need for some time now, particularly in our illiterate age.

Those who have visited his website know that Bill Peschel has done yeoman's service (OK, just look that one up) in annotating Sayers' books. Now, we have one in print, and a treat it is. The footnotes are almost as interesting as the mystery, at least to those of us who already have read "Whose Body?" They explain so many words and phrases, and elucidate so many references, that I have always wondered about but have never bothered to look up. Small things like, where the word "deuce" (as in the phrase, "The deuce you say!") comes from. Or the phrase, "You're a brick." And Peschels' comments in the footnotes are frequently witty and worthy of Lord Peter Wimsey himself.

"Whose Body?", while entertaining, is generally regarded by Sayers fans as the weakest of the LPW mysteries. This was her first LPW book, and Sayers was still feeling her way around with the character. There is a forced archness and artificiality, and stilted dialogue, that one does not find in the subsequent books. Therefore, it is possible that Peschel chose this, the first-published of the LPW mysteries, for his first annotated LPW mystery, because it was the first to be out of copyright. If that is the case, then one hopes that the next-published LPW book in the canon, and one of the best, "Clouds of Witness," will be out soon. Whatever the failings of "Whose Body?", the mystery itself is a corker, involving the apparently unconnected disappearance of a prominent financier and the discovery of an unidentified naked dead body in a bathtub.

Some reviewers have complained that there are too many footnotes. And it is true that Peschel explains some words (like "rankle") that most educated people would not need explained or defined. But I would rather that Peschel erred on the side of too many rather than too few; the footnotes are, after all, the raison d'etre for this edition. Also included are some interesting and entertaining little essays in the back on relevant topics too extensive to fit into footnotes.

Well, done, Mr. Peschel, and thank you. On to "Clouds of Witness," please!

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M. Hughes
A Great Companion Work for Lord Peter Buffs
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012
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Loved this book. Lots of helpful information. I've been reading Lord Peter since I was a youngster in the 1980s and it's amazing how much I simply glossed over without knowing what it meant. Kudos to Peschel for his excellent research. The notes to this volume make an already great story even more meaningful. Peschel has annotated other LP mysteries too, and they are available on his website, [...]

I do have one minor quibble about Peschel's writing; he has a tendency to mix up verb tenses, so his essays and longer notes can be confusing. He needs to get an editor (or a better one, if he's using one now, as he's getting gypped) with a grammar specialty. But that's a small potato compared to the overwhelming volume of research Peschel has put into this book and the other annotations. Real labors of love, obviously, since Lord Peter probably doesn't have a huge following anymore, and there's probably little market for this sort of thing. It's a shame, because the stories are fun, the characters are dynamite, the dialogue is pithy, and the ethical problems that frequently come in on the heels of the mystery are downright grand and add depth to the stories. Peschel's work augments the stories laudably. I only wish he could do all of them; he might even have been able to make sense of "The Five Red Herrings." Alas.

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Barkingmad
The best Kindle book I have to date (or one of)
Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2012
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Meaning it functions extremely well as an e-book. There are several maps and they are very readable in the e-book. The links to the annotations, and back to the story, worked flawlessly. There is a real cover graphic of the book, in full color. THANK YOU ! I am so tired of the monotonous, generic covers. There is a working table of contents ! ( It is the little things that make life sweet )
Of course this story is one of the truly great Mysteries. This first book in the series is AN ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO THIS WIMSEY CHARACTER THINKS HE IS.
Just watching the TV portrayals I thought he was a man of little intellect and even less action; getting everyone around him to do all the thinking and leg work while he stood around in a monocle.
I was wrong. Whimsy is the real stuff and very human under all those impeccably turned out clothes.
Thank you Bunter.
I had no trouble with all the annotations; they are simply numbered links in the text after all. If you are at a complete loss as to what D.L. Sayers is writing about you can very quickly find out by touching the link and be back to the story, exactly where you were, just as quick. If you have a general idea and want to skip the annotation it is easy to get used to over looking the link numbers. I don't know how it could be made simpler unless of coarse if the word was the link but that might be confusing because often it is a phrase that is the subject of the annotation.
You can, while you are at the linked annotation, read a few more to get the gist of what is to come. I didn't do that but may try it on the second voyage.
I would buy this book again and I highly recommend it.
Knowing I will read it again more than once I look forward to spending more time with the annotations and maps in those future forays in to the story.
Thank you Bill Peschel for all your hard work. Great job !

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Die Holde
Schönes Geschenk für Fans von Golden-Age-Krimis
Reviewed in Germany on June 2, 2024
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Der Krimi ist jedem Sayers-Fan sattsam bekannt, aber hier kommen eben eine Unmenge von Anmerkungen hinzu. Adressen werden in Beziehung gesetzt, veraltete Begriffe erklärt, gelegentlich gibt es kleine Verweise auf spätere Bücher usw. Das Verhältnis Originaltext : Anmerkungen schätze ich auf 60:40, um da einen Anhaltspunkt zu geben.
Natürlich ist auch öfters etwas dabei, das mir ohnehin klar gewesen war, aber ich denke, da ist für jeden etwas dabei. Der Autor der Anmerkungen hat jedenfalls unheimlich viel Arbeit in dieses Werk investiert und die Anmerkungen auf den Fragen von Testlesern verschiedenen Alters aufgebaut. Die Anmerkungen sind grundsolide, soweit ich das beurteilen kann. Bin sehr zufrieden.

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South Coast Val
Lord Peter
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2012
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Good story, well written, as you expect from D L Sayers, and lots of period detail. Annotations useful for those terms that have lost their use in modern times.

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AM Skipper
Classic book with interesting extra material
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2011
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This was the first book I've read on my new Kindle, and I have to admit that the reason I chose this version, rather than the standard version of "Whose Body?" was simply that it was much cheaper. However, I was glad to have chosen this version after reading it, price aside. Dorothy L Sayers' text is annotated with an extensive set of explanatory notes, which vary from explanation of old fashioned or particularly British terms to potted biographies or images of historical figures or places mentioned in the text. Since I'm English and have been reading classic detective fiction for the last 35 years or so, I did already know quite a lot of the extra information included here, such as most of the vintage slang, how telephones used to work, etc. However, there was plenty I didn't already know, and I was particularly interested by the maps of the locations in the story and the explanations of the historical crimes referred to. For someone unused to English vocabulary or period writing, the annotations would be invaluable, I think.
Personally, I found it easier to look up the footnotes at the end of each chapter in a block, rather than refer to each one as I came across it, so as to disturb the flow of the story less - the Kindle format made it a bit cumbersome to look them all up individually. It was easy to ignore the links when caught up in the story, so I didn't find it a disadvantage in any way to have the extra information available. I think the compiler has done a great job of annotating the text; on those topics where I myself have some knowledge, I only noticed very minor errors, so I would think the research is pretty trustworthy overall.
As for the story itself: I am sure other reviewers have discussed it in detail for the unannotated version of the book. I'd not read "Whose Body?" before, and found it easy to read, well characterised and with an ingenious and entertaining (if implausible) plot; lots of period detail; in fact, exactly what you'd expect from a classic British detective novel set in the 1920s. If you can cope with the embedded class conciousness and inherent anti-Semetism, it's an enjoyable read, but it's no different from other books of its era in including some unthinking prejudice that would be abhorrent today.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Companion Work for Lord Peter Buffs

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Classic book with interesting extra material