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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Early paperback edition cover</td></tr> <tr><th>Country</th><td>United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>English</td></tr><tr><th>Series</th><td>Lord Peter Wimsey</td></tr><tr><th>Genre(s)</th><td>Mystery Novel</td></tr> <tr><th>Media Type</th><td>Print (Hardback & Paperback)</td></tr><tr><th>ISBN</th><td>NA</td></tr><tr><th>Preceded by</th><td>Clouds of Witness</td></tr><tr><th>Followed by</th><td>The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club</td></tr>

Unnatural Death

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher
Released	1927

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

It concerns Lord Peter's investigation into the death, three years earlier, of an elderly lady in the last stages of cancer. The lady's death has aroused no suspicion, despite her doctor's dismay at her end coming so quickly, but Wimsey suspects that it may, after all, have been 'unnatural'. The difficulty of discovering the method is compounded by the difficulty of discovering someone with the motive and oppurtunity to kill.

[edit] Allusions/references to other works

Near the beginning of the story when first hearing of the titular death, Wimsey claims he feels just like Prince Florizel of Bohemia. This is a reference to The New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson and not the prince in A Winter's Tale.

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

In 1975, an adaptation starring Ian Carmichael was made for BBC Radio 4.