Now Cathcart is dead of a gunshot wound from Gerald’s revolver, and Mary finds Gerald over the body on a garden path as she comes down at 3 a.m., saying she has heard a shot.Įarlier that evening, Gerald received a letter from an old friend accusing Cathcart of being a card sharp. Peter’s sister is engaged to Captain Denis Cathcart and is visiting Lady Mary, his betrothed. It seems that his brother Gerald, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested on the charge of murder. Lord Peter Wimsey, just returned from a jaunt in France, is informed by his man Bunter that he might want to be off to Riddlesdale, the family home.
Summary: Lord Peter is summoned to find out the truth concerning the death of Denis Cathcart, for which his brother Gerald is facing a murder trial before the peers of the realm. New York: Open Road Media, 2012 (originally published 1926).
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