Read by Kara Shallenberg and Kristin Hughes The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Why would such an apparently well-groomed man have filthy black toenails, flea bites and the scent of carbolic soap lingering on his corpse? Then comes the disappearance of oil millionaire Sir Reuben Levy, last seen on the Battersea Park Road. Librivox recording of Whose Body by Dorothy L. Lord Wimsey makes his way straight over to Mr Thipps’, and a good look at the body raises a number of interesting questions. She has heard through a friend that Mr Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in his bath - wearing nothing but a gold prince-nez. Wimsey’s mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rings her son with news of ‘such a quaint thing’.
Sayers’ first Lord Peter Wimsey tale introduces many of the author’s best-known characters. Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
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