![]() ![]() it’s much easier to work on someone else’s job than one’s own – gives one that delightful feelin’ of interferin’ and bossin’ about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow takin’ all one’s own work off one’s hands.” – “I say, Parker, I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. I submit this review for Bev’s 2016 Vintage Scavenger Hunt and Friday’s Forgotten Books meme run by Patti Abbott at her fab Pattinase blog. ![]() We begin in startling fashion when the dead body of a strange man is found in a bath wearing only a pince-nez … But like Albert Campion, he proves to have hidden depths as he investigates two separate cases that may or may not be one and the same. It has been years since I read anything by Sayers and I thought it would be interesting to go back to the debut of Lord Peter, who initially is very much presented as belonging to the ‘silly ass’ school of detectives. ![]()
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