One of my reading goals for this year is to read the two Dorothy Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey novels that I had not yet read.
I started The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club just before New Year's Day, but I finished it on New Year's Day, so it becomes the first book of 2025, and gets me closer to my goal.
I really enjoyed this one. More of Wimsey comes through, and the book has none of the Harriet Vane romance I've found tiresome in some of the other Wimsey books.
Good mystery. Interesting characters.
One quibble, though. Something I've noted in British mysteries is the acceptance of suicide as an "honorable" way out for for guilty parties facing trial for murder. I don't like that.
Other than that, I only have praise for this book.
One more Wimsey to go!
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