Audiobook Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel

When a wealthy financier mysteriously vanishes from his locked house on the eve of a major financial deal, and a mutilated, anonymous corpse turns up in a suburban bathtub, the police are baffled. Lord Peter Wimsey, collaborating with Inspector Parker, begins to suspect a single, highly methodical mind behind the dual mystery. The clues—discrepancies in medical examinations, mismatched personal habits, and singular finger-prints—point directly to the celebrated nerve specialist Sir Julian Freke. Freke, who regards human conscience as an obsolete physical defect that can be surgically eliminated, has engineered a masterclass in impersonation and murder. He systematically substituted a dead pauper for his rival, using his hospital facilities to stage an untraceable crime that mimics the financier's disappearance. As Wimsey closes the net of inductive reasoning, the surgeon's intellectual arrogance ultimately proves his undoing, leading to his exposure and confession.