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Mystery, Detectives, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Translations into Russian
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate
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“Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.”
An English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist.
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