The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a detective story by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1928. It is in the public domain in the US.
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  • Reading time: 5h
  • Setting: It takes place in 1920s London.
  • Premise: Lord Peter Wimsey is a member of a gentlemen's club, the Bellona Club. On Armistice Day, he is having dinner with some friends there when the old General Fentiman is found dead in his armchair. The members are shocked, but the old man seems to have died of natural causes. When the general's sister is reported to have died on the same night, they discover that the order of the successive deaths is primordial in the execution of the will. Lord Wimsey, an amateur sleuth, decides to investigate. Will his friend, the general's grandson, inherit, or will the fortune pass to the sister's companion? But things are not that simple, and the investigation will lead to more complicated directions and upsetting discoveries.