Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Detective FictionĬhapter 4: -And His Daughter, Much-AfraidĬhapter 5: The Rue St. The mystery's apparently independent but closely intertwined threads are disentangled by the joint efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, his friend Chief Inspector Parker, and the inestimable Bunter. But why, in that weather, had he stayed out? If the Duke, as he claimed, came on the body while returning from a stroll, why such nocturnal wanderings in the fiercest of weather? What led Lady Mary to come down from her bedroom in the middle of the night in order to go to, of all places, the conservatory? What were the Duke of Denver, Lady Mary and Dennis Cathcart doing there on such a night, at such a time? True, Cathcart had angrily left the house hours earlier. (See Dorothy Sayers’ first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, “ Whose Body?”) In Clouds of Witness, when the fianc of Lord Peters sister, Mary, is found dead outside the conservatory of the Wimsey familys shooting lodge in Yorkshire. Scotland Yard is already at work, in the person of Detective Inspector Charles Parker, with whom Lord Peter had recently solved the Battersea Mystery. Learning of his brother’s indictment for murder, Lord Peter and Bunter - his invaluable man servant qua assistant sleuth - fly to the scene. of a bitterly cold and wet morning, his sister found him just outside the conservatory door, leaning over the dead body of her betrothed, Dennis Cathcart.

It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. According to newspaper reports, on October 13th the shooting party at the Duke's Lodge had retired for the night when, at 3 a.m. Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L.

While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their sister Mary's fiance. Download cover art Download CD case insert Clouds of Witness

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