What Would Wimsey Do?

by Guy Fraser-Sampson

Overview

A series of ugly killings has shattered the orderly workings of the Hampstead police station. And truth be told, they have shattered the confidence of the lead investigator on the case, who has long taken pride in his old-school “copper’s nose.” When yet another body turns up, he’s forced to give way to a new chief with fancy new detecting techniques. But when those, too, prove unequal to the task, the police are stymied. So they reach back to the past, invoking the skills of one of the great Gentleman Sleuths. Is this nutty? No doubt. But Lord Peter Wimsey always got his man.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781631942259
Publisher:	Felony & Mayhem Press
Publication date:	11/14/2019
Series:	Not-Quite Golden Age , #1
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Guy Fraser-Sampson is the author of three "Mapp and Lucia" books, which have been featured on BBC Radio and optioned by BBC TV. In his spare time he is an internationally known expert in financial management, with experience in the US, the UK, and the Middle East. He has written several bestselling books on investment strategy, lectures frequently on finance and economics, and is a professor and Senior Fellow at the Cass Business School in London.

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/18/2019

What starts as a standard contemporary police procedural becomes a loving tribute to Dorothy Sayers’s aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, in this witty and clever whodunit from British author Fraser-Sampson (the Hampstead Murders series). The Hampstead police are stymied by the Condom Killer (so called because he always “took the trouble to stop and put a condom on” before raping his unconscious victims), who has just claimed his fifth victim, Katherine Barker. Like the previous four, Barker was found in an open space, having been chloroformed and raped before being bludgeoned to death. The lack of progress leads to a change at the top of the inquiry, with Det. Supt. Simon Collison taking charge 18 months after the case’s inception. Collison plows ahead, aided by psychologist Peter Collins, the boyfriend of one of Collison’s officers, Det. Constable Karen Willis. After Collison’s efforts hit a dead end, leaving him demoralized, Willis suggests that Collison join her in pretending that Collins is Wimsey, and that he play Wimsey’s friend on the force and she Wimsey’s love-interest. That unorthodox approach proves both therapeutic for Collison and a successful way to crack the case. Golden age fans will hope for more from this gifted author. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Anglophiles and lovers of Golden Age mysteries will savor this brisk police procedural, loaded with plenty of red herrings and chockablock with incident and character” —Library Journal

“Comfortingly old-school crime fiction with a modern twist” —Christopher Brookmyre, Dagger award winner: British Crime Writers’ Association

“Classy and sophisticated...if you thought the Golden Age of crime fiction was dead, then read this.” —Ruth Dugdall, Dagger award winner: British Crime Writers’ Association

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