Canadian Chess Newsletter - Chess on Stamps - Issue #17

Published and copyright 2009-10 by David Cohen.
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Lord Peter Wimsey

Written by David Cohen

Nicaragua, 1972, #C801

Nicaragua, 1972, #C801

Nicaragua issued a set of stamps in 1972, #C801-12, on mystery fiction. Stamp #C801 is Dorothy Sayers' detective character, Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers wrote a short story, 'Striding Folly', 1939, in which Wimsey appears only at the end to solve the murder mystery. The story is a psychological thriller. Two people play chess during the evening. Yet one of them killed a person miles away - while they were playing. Did one of the players' dreams of the rook-shaped Folly tower coming to life, to stride after him and crush him, get the better of him? Or did his mysterious playing partner commit the crime?