Sayers, Dorothy, L. (1893-1957)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.

First edition, octavo, one of only 1,000 copies printed; bound in original publisher's black cloth stamped with orange lettering and decorations (lacking original dust jacket); W.H. Smith & Son, Paris booksellers label to front pastedown; 7 ¼ x 4 5/8 in.

Sayers's fourth mystery novel in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a tightly constructed little drama based upon the old joke about an English men's club so stuffy that its dead members cannot be differentiated from the living, a potent observation. During a decade and a half of novel-writing, Dorothy L. Sayers increasingly expanded the detective anecdote into a full-fledged novel." (Kennedy).

Gilbert A6.

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