Discuss classic and award winning ebooks with other readers. Click event title for Zoom link. Contact Lissa at classicsmodern@tscpl.org for help with the Zoom link, Facebook group or questions.
Read the ebook or listen to the audiobook
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died—and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance. Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.
"The book is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an Englishman's club so stuffy that its dead members cannot be differentiated from the living – a pertinent comment upon the society so described." -Katherine Kenny, in 1990
Read the ebook or listen to the audiobook on Hoopla or check availability on physical items from the library.
Read 220 pages or listen to the audiobook. (Audiobook recording is anticipated in 2024 once the title enters the public domain.)
Join the discussion on Zoom
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024, 2-3 pm Zoom Link: https://tscpl.zoom.us/j/85238537421?pwd=IFNRyIZrmJc7DTnLsf0zD4ETlfWKbv.1
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AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual | Books/Authors/Writing |
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