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* The Wimsey Papers, published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine — a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war.
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However, according to the wartime publications of The Wimsey Papers, published in The Spectactor, the second son was called Paul.
In one of the Wimsey Papers, a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to Harriet's difficulty in continuing to write murder mysteries at a time when European dictators were openly committing mass murders with impunity ; this seems to have reflected Sayers ' own wartime feeling.
The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe.
* A Presumption of Death, ( 2002 ) ( novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers )
Jill Paton Walsh followed it in 2002 with another Wimsey / Vane novel, A Presumption of Death, set during World War II and based on some short wartime writings of Sayers known as " The Wimsey Papers ".
Chronologically between the two are " The Wimsey Papers ", a series of epistolary articles written at the beginning of World War II, which Sayers wrote for The Spectator.
Jill Paton Walsh referenced " The Wimsey Papers " in writing A Presumption of Death, set at the beginning of the Second World War, in which Harriet takes a leading role.
A Presumption of Death is a mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers.
The Wimsey Papers were a series of articles published by Sayers during World War II, purporting to be letters written between the various Wimseys during the war ( similar to Busman's Honeymoon, Sayers's last completed Wimsey novel, the novel's prologue consists entirely of selections from these letters ).
Wimsey and published
* The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion ( 2002 ) by Stephan P. Clarke ISBN 0-89296-850-8 published by The Dorothy L. Sayers Society.
Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933.
Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in Busman's Honeymoon, the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's marriage.
By 1985 there were plans to publish the manuscript as it stood, together with some of the other short Wimsey pieces, both published and unpublished, but these failed due to the death of Sayers ' son and heir Anthony Fleming in that year.
This collection, the ninth in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, was first published by Gollancz in 1933 and has been frequently reprinted ( 1995 paperback: ISBN 978-0-06-104362-8 ).
* In the Teeth of the Evidence ( 1939 ) ( editions published after 1942 usually add Talboys, the last story Sayers wrote with Lord and Lady Peter Wimsey )
Lord Peter Views the Body, first published in 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Five Red Herrings, a whodunit by Dorothy L. Sayers published in the US as Suspicious Characters, sees Lord Peter Wimsey, on holiday in Kirkcudbright, investigating the death of an artist living in Gatehouse of Fleet ; the book contains some remarkable descriptions of the countryside.
The first Wimsey story was published in 1923 and the last by Ms Sayers alone in 1937.
Late 1931 The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey ( in Hangman ’ s Holiday, Short Stories published 1933 ).
Wimsey and between
Many episodes in the Wimsey books express a mild satire of the British class system, in particular in depicting the relationship between Wimsey and Bunter, the two of them clearly being the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter invariably punctilious in using " my lord " even when they are alone, and " his lordship " in company.
* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.
Overhearing a conversation in a restaurant between Wimsey and his friend Parker, a doctor tells the two of a death that affected his career.
The appalling noise in the bell-chamber convinces him that Deacon, tied there for hours between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day while Wimsey helped with the all-night peal, could not have survived.
The strong relation between Lord Darcy and Master Sean O ' Lochlainn in some ways recalls that between Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and his servant Mervyn Bunter.
However, in this case the real relationship between Wimsey and Bunter is made clear, as are Bunter ’ s sterling qualities as a servant and as an investigator.
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Also popular were the stories featuring Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance.
Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.
Desperate to avoid a possible murder in college, Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.
Harriet is forced to re-examine her relationship with Wimsey in the light of what she has discovered about herself.
Wimsey eventually arrives in Oxford to help her, and she gains a new perspective on him from those who know him, including his nephew, a current undergraduate at the university.
The perpetrator is finally unmasked by Wimsey as one of the college servants, revealed to be the widow of a disgraced academic at a northern university.
in 1973 ; the role of Harriet was played by Joanna David, and Wimsey by Ian Carmichael.
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.
A bon vivant who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective.
Born in 1890 and aging in real time, Wimsey is described as being at best average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face.
Lord Peter Wimsey's ( fictional ) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre.
Lord Peter's was born the second of the three children of Mortimer Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver, and Honoria Lucasta Delagardie, who lives on throughout the novels as the Dowager Duchess of Denver.
Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, who detests Wimsey, and their devil-may-care heir, Viscount St. George ( Wimsey's nephew, who likes him ), also make appearances in the novels, as does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter.
As a boy, the young Peter Wimsey was, to the great distress of his father, strongly attached to an old, smelly poacher living at the edge of the family estate.
Wimsey served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade.
Though not explicitly stated, that feat implies that Wimsey spoke a fluent and unaccented German.
For reasons never clarified in any of the books, after the end of his mission as a spy behind enemy lines Wimsey in the later part of the war moved from Intelligence and resumed the role of a regular line officer.
Nevertheless, he is a friend as well as a servant, and Wimsey again and again expresses amazement at Bunter's high efficiency and competence in virtually every sphere of life.
In 1918, Wimsey was severely wounded by artillery fire near Caudry in France.
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