Чей труп? Лорд Питер осматривает тело

Odnazhdy utrom uvazhaemyĭ v okruge arkhitektor mister Tipps obnaruzhil v svoeĭ vanne trup sovershenno neznakomogo muzhchiny, odetogo v odno pensne. Cheĭ ėto trup? Kak on okazalsi͡a v chuzhoĭ vanne? I mozhet li naĭdennoe telo bytʹ kak-to svi͡azano s propazheĭ vlii͡atelʹnogo finansista, bessledno ischeznuvshego iz sobstvennogo doma proshloĭ nochʹi͡u? Na vse ėti voprosy pytaetsi͡a naĭti otvety detektiv-li͡ubitelʹ - lord Piter Uimzi. "Cheĭ trup?" - debi͡utnyĭ roman Doroti Li Sėĭers, s kotorogo i nachalasʹ ee literaturnai͡a karʹera. Takzhe v ėto izdanie vkli͡uchen sbornik rasskazov "Lord Piter osmatrivaet telo", vpervye opublikovannyĭ v 1928 godu. Ėti istorii nagli͡adno demonstrirui͡ut kak masterstvo samoĭ Sėĭers v maloĭ forme, tak i sposobnostʹ lorda Pitera Uimzi razobratʹsi͡a s naibolee zaputannymi zagadkami za rekordno korotkoe chislo stranit͡s. . V dvadt͡satye-tridt͡satye gody proshlogo veka Doroti Li Sėĭers vmeste s Agatoĭ Kristi, Mardzheri Allingem i Naĭo Marsh otnosili k chislu chetyrekh korolev angliĭskogo detektiva. - Lord Piter Uimzi - odin iz samykh izvestnykh literaturnykh detektivov. Ego populi͡arnostʹ byla tak velika, chto dazhe izvestnyĭ pisatelʹ Stiven King na zare karʹery predprini͡al popytku napisatʹ roman ob ocherednom rassledovanii lorda-detektiva. - "Cheĭ trup" - debi͡utnyĭ roman Doroti Li Sėĭers i pervai͡a kniga o rassledovanii͡akh lorda Pitera Uimzi. - Vse knigi o Pitere Uimzi obladai͡ut zavershennymi samostoi͡atelʹnymi si͡uzhetami i mogut chitatʹsi͡a po otdelʹnosti. - Takzhe v dannoe izdanie voshlo 12 rasskazov, v kotorykh takzhe figuriruet lord Piter Uimzi.

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.