Talk about taking it home. The setting is Duke's Denver and the suspect arrested by the dependably incorrect Inspector Suggs is the Duke himself, Lord Peter's older brother. In spite of having little in common with his brother, Lord Peter does love him, if only because his removal would make Lord Peter, himself, the duke - and that is a fate he is committed to avoiding.
Again, as in Whose Body, the plot is terribly convoluted. Coincidence piled on coincidence piled on coincidence, but Sayers makes it all work. We even get a flying trip to the States thrown in for good measure. Lord Peter makes the return in a two-seater in foul weather with a daredevil pilot - Lindbergh had already broken the ice on that sort of thing. But from this trip Lord Peter brings the critical piece of evidence - arriving just moments before the jury retires to consider its verdict, thereby saving his brother from the hangman's noose, and himself from the House of Lords.
In addition, Lord Peter's good friend, Charles Parker - a good cop from Scotland Yard - meets the girl of his dreams.
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