Unnatural Death

<p><i>Unnatural Death</i>, published in 1927, is the third novel written by <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/dorothy-l-sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> featuring her aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey.</p> <p>The story begins with a conversation in a restaurant between Wimsey, his friend Detective Inspector Charles Parker, and a doctor who tells them about a situation he was involved in: an elderly lady, suffering from a slow-acting cancer, died suddenly and unexpectedly with no obvious immediate cause of death. She died intestate, but her great-niece, with whom she was living, was set to inherit the considerable estate. Suspecting something wrong, the doctor demanded an autopsy, which showed nothing unusual, but stirred up such local animosity that the he was forced to abandon his practice.