A terminally ill woman dies unexpectedly, and Lord Peter suspects murder. When Agatha Dawson refuses to give in to cancer, she accuses lawyers, nurses, and doctors of trying to kill her and snatch her fortune. The town physician gives her six months to live, but three days later, she is dead. Lord Peter looks into the matter, only to find that death stalks all those who might testify.

Unnatural Death

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…