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The Lord Peter Wimsey sequence was penned by Anthony Berkeley. The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History compiled from correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers (1977) by C. W. Scott-Giles, Victor Gollancz, London. ISBN 0-06-013998-6; Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook (1981) by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins ISBN 0-89919-032-4
Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by Jill Paton Walsh. Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover (Strong Poison). The detective falls in love with her and proposes ...
1918: In October Wimsey, with Bunter now his batman, moves into the trenches of Caudry. Within a few weeks Wimsey is buried in a dugout by shell fire and Bunter is among those who rescue him. 1919: In January Bunter appears at the Wimseys' ducal residence to serve him. 1920: To assist Wimsey's recovery, Bunter finds a modern flat in Piccadilly.
A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. He is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; by his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and, in a few books, by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.
In 1998, she completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane novel, Thrones, Dominations. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death. In 2010, she published a third, The Attenbury Emeralds. [16]
In Sayers's stories, Lord Peter was the second of the three children of Mortimer Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver. The duchy, Wimsey's mother the dowager duchess, and his brother Gerald Christian Wimsey, the then Duke of Denver, were introduced in Sayers's first Wimsey novel, Whose Body?. [1] [2]
Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from his usual routine of solving crimes, and hers of writing about them, but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with ...
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. It is also included in the 1987 BBC TV series. The book marks a stage in the long drawn out courting of Harriet Vane by Wimsey.