Sayers Dorothy L and Eustace Robert Pseud Dr Eustace Barton (1 results)
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Published by London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1942
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Seller: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, United KingdomCHILTON BOOKS
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Add to basket7th impression. 'Cheap War Edition'. The only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. However, the forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock, who appears or is mentioned in several of the Wimsey novels, also appears in The Documents in the Case. An epistolary nove…l, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters, using the multiple narrative technique associated with Modernist novelists of the period. This collection of documentshence the novel's titleis explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father. Pp.174, pages browned, owner's details to front free endpaper and final page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G.
