Whose Body?
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Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers first published in the UK by T. Fisher Unwin and in the US by Boni & Liveright. It was her debut novel, and the book in which she introduced th
1936 edition by Gollancz
Pince-nez
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Pince-nez is a style of glasses, popular in the late-19th and early-p20th centuries. The lenses are supported without earpieces, in a frame pinching the bridge of the nose. The name "pince-nez" comes
Whose Body?
…were largely positive, and later critics have continued to express admiration. Thipps, an architect, finds a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath of his London flat. Lord Peter Wimsey—a nobleman who has recently developed an interest in criminal investigation as a hobby—resolves to…
Anton Chekhov with pince-nez, 1903
C-bridge pince-nez spectacles, cased, England, between 1875 and 1925
Rimless astig pince-nez
Finger-piece hard bridge pince-nez