SAYERS, DOROTHY L AND EUSTACE, ROBERT. [PSEUD. DR EUSTACE BARTON]. — The Documents in the Case.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1942. 7th impression. 'Cheap War Edition'. The only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. However, the forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock, who appears or is mentioned in several of the Wimsey novels, also appears in The Documents in the Case. An epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters, using the multiple narrative technique associated with Modernist novelists of the period. This collection of documents—hence the novel's title—is explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father. Pp.174, pages browned, owner's details to front free endpaper and final page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G.