An amazing feat in a book that also manages to probe so penetratingly the roots of Good and Evil.ĭavid Case is responsible for my lifelong love of listening to books. And if you savor Bertie and Jeeves you're in luck: Lord Peter has some lines that approach the Wodehousian. To catch some of the quips, you need a grounding in Classical and European literature (something I’m gaining by listening to all the books I blew through so carelessly in college). Case is the perfect vehicle for the glib banter and witty persiflage that flow from this first, and most light-hearted, iteration of Lord Peter-second only to Ian Carmichael, who played Wimsey onscreen. There are plenty of other mysteries out there with car chases and bedroom scenes their absence is one of the things that makes the Golden Age so golden. And I don’t understand how anyone could pick up one of the seminal works of the Golden Age of crime fiction and call it “wordy” or “boring”. I don’t get what some find so annoying about David Case/Frederick Davidson. We haven't been able to get audio recordings of Sayers for some years on this side of the Atlantic, but I hope that the fact that we've seen two new ones appear in Audible offerings in the last couple of months indicates that the legal tangles (whatever they were) are over and that we will once again have access to these wonderful audiobooks, I can not wait for "Murder Must Advertise"!!! I just feel that Carmichael has a tendency to make Wimsey sound angry and irritable too much of the time and misses some of Sayers' wonderful humor that way, and that Case has a more nuanced and accurate reading of the character. I know most people probably won't agree with me, but I prefer him to Ian Carmichael even though Carmichael is the ultimate voice of Lord Peter Wimsey for so many of us. I also really like David Case as the reader.
Wimsey is a little over the top in this, his first outing, but he settles down as the series goes on so no need to be put off by that. Thipps, their housemaid Gladys and her boyfriend, the delightfully dim Freddy Arbuthnot, and of course the omnipotent Bunter.
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These include the incomparable Dowager Duchess of Denver, Mr. It provides an interesting and bizarre mystery with a unique criminal, a brief but poignant examination of shell shock after WW1 (Sayers' husband suffered from this), and a wonderful array of Sayers eccentric supporting characters. This is the first book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and it's definitely worth listening to. Thrilled to see Sayers appearing at Audible USA!!!
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