Description: "Originally published in Great Britain by T. Fisher Unwin, London, and in the United States by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1923"--Copyright page.
Review Quotes: "Pure pleasure to read... What elevated Sayers's debut to the upper ranks of the genre was the quality of her prose and the sense that her sleuth had more emotional heft than he displayed." --Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review
"Sayers brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, and wit. She gave it a new style and a new direction, and she did more than almost any other writer of her age to make the genre intellectually respectable." --P. D. James