Unnatural Death

In post-war England, where thousands of women have been made "surplus" by the Great War's toll, a country doctor brings Lord Peter Wimsey a troubling case. He's convinced his patient was murdered, yet the death certificate reads natural causes, and she would have died within months anyway. Why does someone kill a woman already dying? Lord Peter digs into the secrets of a quiet English village, aided by his friend Chief Inspector Parker and his invaluable valet Bunter, and encounters the formidable Miss Climpson, one of England's overlooked "surplus women" whose very existence seems to irritate certain powerful men. Sayers weaves a clever puzzle with sharp social commentary, revealing that in a world that has already decided some lives don't matter, murder can hide in plain sight.