Dorothy L. Sayers 
Clouds of Witness 
A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

The grouse season has begun, and Lord Peter Wimsey’s brother, the Duke of Denver, has descended upon the Wimsey family retreat in rustic Riddlesdale village with a small hunting party. Captain Denis Cathcart, Wimsey’s soon-to-be brother-in-law, is found shot dead at the door of the lodge’s conservatory, and the accused murderer is Gerald, the Duke of Denver. Faced with a multiplicity of clues, suspects, and scandalous behavior, Lord Wimsey and Chief Inspector Parker of Scotland Yard work together to solve this cozy atmospheric and suspenseful whodunit.

 

Ranked with Agatha Christie as a master of the English crime fiction and mystery genres, Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) wrote eleven novels featuring the aristocratic gentleman detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.

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Contents

I. Of His Malice Aforethought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

II. The Green-Eyed Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

III. Mudstains and Bloodstains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

IV. —And His Daughter Much-Afraid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

V. The Rue St. Honoré and the Rue de la Paix . . . . . . . . . . . 

VI. Mary Quite Contrary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

VII. The Club and the Bullet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

VIII. Mr. Parker Takes Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

IX. Goyles.

X. Nothing Abides at the Noon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XI. Meribah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XII. The Alibi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XIII. Manon.



XIV. The Edge of the Axe Towards Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XV. Bar Falling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XVI. The Second String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XVII. The Eloquent Dead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XVIII. The Speech for the Defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

XIX. Who Goes Home? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .