ABOUT THE VIDEO: While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their sister Mary's fiance. According to newspaper reports, on October 13th the shooting party at the Duke's Lodge had retired for the night when, at 3 a.m. of a bitterly cold and wet morning, his sister found him just outside the conservatory door, leaning over the dead body of her betrothed, Dennis Cathcart. Learning of his brother’s indictment for murder, Lord Peter and Bunter - his invaluable man servant qua assistant sleuth - fly to the scene. Scotland Yard is already at work, in the person of Detective Inspector Charles Parker, with whom Lord Peter had recently solved the Battersea Mystery. (See Dorothy Sayers’ first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, “Whose Body?”) What were the Duke of Denver, Lady Mary and Dennis Cathcart doing there on such a night, at such a time? True, Cathcart had angrily left the house hours earlier. But why, in that weather, had he stayed out? If the Duke, as he claimed, came on the body while returning from a stroll, why such nocturnal wanderings in the fiercest of weather? What led Lady Mary to come down from her bedroom in the middle of the night in order to go to, of all places, the conservatory? The mystery's apparently independent but closely intertwined threads are disentangled by the joint efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, his friend Chief Inspector Parker, and the inestimable Bunter. – Summary and read by Kirsten Wever Thank you so much for your listening, subscribing, likes and comments! CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter 1: Of His Malice Aforethought 01:08:47 - 02 - Chapter 2: The Green-Eyed Cat 02:09:11 - 03 - Chapter 3: Mudstains and Bloodstains 03:12:19 - 04 - Chapter 4: —And His Daughter, Much-Afraid 03:55:36 - 05 - Chapter 5: The Rue St. Honoré and the Rue de la Paix 04:37:50 - 06 - Chapter 6: Mary Quite Contrary 05:11:53 - 07 - Chapter 7: The Club and the Bullet 05:45:01 - 08 - Chapter 8: Mr. Parker Takes Notes 05:55:27 - 09 - Chapter 9: Goyles 06:33:43 - 10 - Chapter 10: Nothing Abides at the Noon 07:08:39 - 11 - Chapter 11: Meribah 07:52:26 - 12 - Chapter 12: The Alibi 08:32:38 - 13 - Chapter 13: Manon 08:53:38 - 14 - Chapter 14: The Edge of the Axe Towards Him 09:35:24 - 15 - Chapter 15: Bar Falling 09:50:45 - 16 - Chapter 16: The Second String 10:06:08 - 17 - Chapter 17: The Eloquent Dead 10:25:50 - 18 - Chapter 18: The Speech for the Defense 11:03:40 - 19 - Chapter 19: Who Goes Home? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957) Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism and essays.