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Have His Carcase

Have His Carcase
Dorothy L. Sayers

Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which Harriet Vane appears.

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“Lord Peter Wimsey: I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.”

Dorothy L. Sayers book Have His Carcase

Variant: Lord Peter Wimsey: A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Source: Have His Carcase (1932)

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