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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Whose Body? feels like a first book. It kinda feels like it could have been self-published at Amazon. It feels like Saysers didn't really get how to write a mystery.
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I agree with that, at least up to a point; Sayers is always highly literate and readable, which many self-pubbed books are not.
You're kind of being hoist with your own petard here. First books in a series are frequently a learning experience for the author, and Sayers would go on to develop her craft. But it you won't start a series slightly later, there you are.
I said in a much older thread that I know that when the first tv series of the Lord Peter Wimsey books was developed, the decision was made to start with the second book in the series,
Clouds of Witness, a much better book than
Whose Body? I think it's a far better gateway to the series and that nothing would be lost by going back to
Whose Body? at a later point - but of course you'd be unwilling to do that.
