A very enjoyable yarn. This was my first Lord Peter Wimsey book, and I didn't find him to be a very believable character. He seems to be brilliantly talented at everything, with no discernible character flaws.

But that aside, this was a good story very well told. Some of the prose, especially the little set-pieces comprising multiple cross-cutting conversations, was impressively well constructed, and quite reminiscent of some of Virginia Woolf's.

So, not bad overall.