Good solid mystery from Miss Sayers. I came back to this one after reading Agatha Christie's "Appointment with Death" which references the murder method used in this book. Interestingly we can complete the circle back to AC as the description of the picnickers flocking to the scene of the disappearance of the two young women late in the book could be taken from Miss Sayers own first hand visit to the scene of AC's disappearance in 1926! An interesting story where, as DLS herself says (via Harriet Vane) in a later book, she invented a method of murder so watertight it was difficult to find a way of catching the murderer - HV forced a confession, DLS gets the murderer to panic and murder more, finally relying on catching them red handed! Good read! ( )

Very much enjoyed the original format of this medico-legal mystery. Even though one suspects the ending, Sayers is aways disconfirming these guesses until the very end. ( )

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An excellent mystery, well plotted, good red herrings and some nice comic moments too. Wimsey is on good whimsical form and his occasional assistant Miss Climpson also features to good effect. in keeping with quite a few Sayers mysteries there isn't a real shock as to whodunnit, but there are some nice twists involving how and why they dunnit. I now have only one full length Wimsey novel left to read and am very sad at this state of affairs. They are beautiful novels.

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