This mystery book follows Lord Peter Wimsey as he works to solve the peculiar circumstances surrounding the death of a wealthy elderly man. With a half-million-pound inheritance at stake, Wimsey must unravel mysterious clues surrounding the absence of a red poppy, a fixed telephone, and a swinging knee. Will he be able to crack the case?

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey is a bon vivant sleuth in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries — usually but not always murders. The novels are set in Britain contemporaneously with when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s; Sayers returned to Wimsey was the 1942 short story…