Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Audio): Clouds of Witness Lib/E (Series #2) (CD-Audio)

from cpg

I was thinking I'd give this book 5 stars. It's much less confusing than many of Sayers' other novels: not a lot of poorly differentiated characters to keep track of, not ridiculously complicated timetables to have to absorb. But I ended up finding the ending just too disturbing. In America, a la...

from kaitanya64

I'd read some of Sayers' lit. crit, but this was my first of her mysteries. I just felt it was too easy to see where this was going. The one really effective red herring falls apart half way through and then it's just a gradual unravel. I wasn't even convinced that the resolution was clearly inev...

from pgchuis

The second in the series, with a much better paced plot and clues. Lord Peter's brother, Gerald, is charged with the murder of Denis Cathcart, who is engaged to marry Lady Mary, sister to Gerald and Peter. Gerald and Mary appear to have discovered the body at the same moment in the middle of the ...

from DeltaQueen50

The second book in her Lord Peter Wimsey series, Clouds of Witness has Lord Peter trying to clear his brother of a murder charge. Aided by his faithful valet, Bunter, and his police Chief Inspector friend, Parker, they embark on witness interviewing and clue gathering, knowing full well that Lord...

from laytonwoman3rd

The second in Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series. He's still clever, yet Woosterish at times, and he comes to the wrong conclusion more than once before hitting on the solution. To begin, Lord Peter's future brother-in-law is found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest on the family premises; Peter'...