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Lord Peter Wimsey is called "Lord" as he is the younger son of a duke. This is a courtesy title; he is not a peer and has no right to sit in the House of Lords, nor does the courtesy title pass on to any offspring he may have.
- British
- Whose Body? (1923)
The Wimsey novels and short-story collections include Clouds of Witness (1926), Unnatural Death (1927), Lord Peter Views the Body (1928), The Five Red Herrings (1931), Have His Carcase (1932), Murder Must Advertise (1933), The Nine Tailors (1934), Gaudy Night (1935), and Busman’s Honeymoon (1937). The Wimsey mysteries were adapted for both ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, the fictional title of Duke of Denver is held by Gerald Wimsey, older brother of the books' protagonist, Lord Peter Wimsey. In novels written after Sayers' death by Jill Paton Walsh (with the cooperation of the Sayers estate), Lord
Lord Peter Wimsey (radio series) A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery. Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of television serial adaptations of five Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. They were broadcast on BBC1 between 1972 and 1975, beginning with Clouds of Witness in April 1972. [1]
- United Kingdom
- 21
- Mystery, Period drama
- Herbert Chappell
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Jun 11, 2023 · To celebrate the 100th birthday of Lord Peter on November 24th, 1990, a portrait of a 21-year-old Wimsey was presented to Balliol College. On accepting it, the Master of Balliol congratulated the Dorothy L. Sayers Society on its celebration of “Lord Peter Wimsey, a graduate of this college.”. In this article from issue 17, Chris Willis ...
Jun 1, 2023 · The first thing that anyone ever notices about Lord Peter himself is his monocle. In the army his men called him ‘Winderpane’ (Gaudy Night 336); in ‘The Man with Copper Fingers’, Varden’s memory of Wimsey is that ‘[h]e had sleek, pale hair, and one of those rather stupid faces, with a long nose and a monocle’ (14–15), making him sound like a typical silly ass in the mould of ...
