One morning, a respected architect in the area, Mr. Thipps, discovered in his bathtub the corpse of a completely unknown man wearing only pince-nez. Whose body is this? How did he end up in someone else's bathtub? And could the body found have anything to do with the disappearance of an influential financier who disappeared from his own home last night? An amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, is trying to find answers to all these questions. "Whose corpse?" — the debut novel by Dorothy Lee Sayers, which launched her literary career. Also included in this edition is a collection of short stories, "Lord Peter Examines the Body," first published in 1928. These stories vividly demonstrate both the skill of Sayers herself in a small form, and the ability of Lord Peter Wimsey to solve the most intricate mysteries in a record number of pages. . In the twenties and thirties of the last century, Dorothy Lee Sayers, along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Nyo Marsh, were among the four queens of the English detective story. — Lord Peter Wimsey is one of the most famous literary detectives. His popularity was so great that even the famous writer Stephen King, at the dawn of his career, attempted to write a novel about another investigation of the lord detective. — "Whose Corpse" is the debut novel by Dorothy Lee Sayers and the first book about the investigations of Lord Peter Wimsey. — All books about Peter Wimsey have complete independent plots and can be read separately. — This edition also includes 12 short stories, which also feature Lord Peter Wimsey.