Murder Must Advertise

356 pages

English language

Published June 18, 1995 by Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media.

ISBN:
978-0-606-31183-0
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OCLC Number:
149196672

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5 stars (4 reviews)

When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye-- cocaine, blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines.

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4 stars

Murder Must Advertise is more scathing expose or satire than a whodunit; the murderer is apparent. It's good fun though, some ploys discussed in the novel are still in use 85 years later, and (not-so-spoiler alert) it was known that cigarettes were not great for one's health, but what is health compared to the sophistication and allure of crushed butts, ochre-stained teeth and fingers and ashy breath?

Sayers writes gushingly of her hero-detective Lord Peter Wimsey, going undercover at Pym's Publicity. Reading his unparalleled physical accomplishments and play at an alter ego, I wondered if Sayers had picked up a "The Shadow" pulp novel (the time would have been right, or maybe those super-man detectives were in intercontinental vogue in the early 1930s).

I'll likely recommend this but I can't give it five stars. I've read in English since I was three, but the cricket match near the end of …

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