A series of cipher letters received from an unknown source convinced him that he was being called to return to Russia to take his place as the new rightful Tsar.Īlexis had been engaged to a rich widow in her fifties, Mrs Weldon. Wimsey and Harriet discover that in the period leading up to his death Alexis, an avid reader of Ruritanian romances, had believed himself to be a descendant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. The police tend to the view that Alexis's death was suicide and that he had cut his own throat. The victim is identified as Paul Alexis, a young man of Russian extraction, employed by a Wilvercombe hotel as a professional dancing partner. Unfortunately, the corpse is washed away by the rising tide before she can summon help.Īlerted to the discovery by a friend, Lord Peter Wimsey arrives, and he and Harriet start their investigations. There are no footprints in the sand other than hers and those of the victim. The man's blood is still liquid, from which it is concluded that he had died shortly before she arrived. Harriet takes photographs and collects the razor used in the death, and other personal items. It is also included in the 1987 BBC TV series.ĭuring a hiking holiday on the South West coast of England, the detective novelist Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man lying on an isolated rock on the shore, not far from the resort of Wilvercombe his throat has been cut. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which Harriet Vane appears. The upper class sleuth battles to finally unmask a killer.Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Lord Peter Wimsey exchanges harsh words with Harriet, and a dinner date leads to a shocking revelation.Īs a desperate Lord Peter Wimsey fails to confirm his theories, the elusive witness Perkins turns up.

Keen to unmask the killer on the beach, Lord Peter Wimsey ponders Sir Henry's motives. Murder or suicide? Upper class sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey must trace a vital clue - a battered old razor. When crime author Harriet Vane finds a body, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.

Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 19.įirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1981.Īdapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. Have His Carcase was first published in 1932. When crime author Harriet Vane finds a body, debonair sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates.Ĭlassy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.īritish gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Have His Carcase - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

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