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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.
Sayers wrote no more Wimsey murder mysteries, and only one story involving him, after the outbreak of the Second World War.
" Whereupon Miss Murchison, the indefatigable investigator employed by Wimsey for much of this book, comments " Or, if one wasn't accustomed to be waited on, one might use the water from the bedroom jug.
* Dorothy L. Sayers's Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), one of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels
Wimsey continues his probing at Pym's, and learns that one of the senior copywriters, Tallboy, seems to have large amounts of cash.
* 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.
Some editions include as a foreword a letter written by Sayers " To my friend Joe Dignam, the kindliest of landlords ," from which it becomes evident that she herself was in the habit of having holidays in Galloway-a habit attributed to Wimsey in the book-and that on one of them she promised her landlord to write a detective novel set in this area, of which the book was a fulfilment.
Wimsey works in close cooperation with the police throughout the book ; indeed, in one episode a character angrily accuses him of " entering people's homes as a police spy ".
Stranded in the Fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on New Year's Eve after a car accident, Wimsey helps ring a nine-hour peal of bells overnight after Will Thoday, one of the ringers, is stricken by influenza.
The Nine Tailors was adapted for television as a four-part series in 1973, one of several adaptations of " Lord Peter Wimsey " novels starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.
His deep remorse and guilt at having caused Crutchley to be executed leave doubt as to whether he would undertake further murder investigations-and in fact Sayers wrote no further Wimsey novels after this one.
After two years ' marriage the Harwells are famously still devoted to one another, and when she is found dead at their weekend cottage in the country Wimsey is asked to help interview the distraught husband, and becomes involved with the investigation.
Wimsey, realizing that the Germans had broken the code which he had been using, devises a new one which is unbreakable because of being based on things only he and Harriet knew.
There is only one obscure reference to Bunter, and none to Miss Vane directly, although at one point Wimsey has a date with the one " young woman who showed no signs of yielding to him, and what he did or said on that occasion is in no way related to this story ".

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The publication of the first six volumes of the Collected Papers ( 1931 – 35 ), the most important event to date in Peirce studies and one that Cohen made possible by raising the needed funds, did not prompt an outpouring of secondary studies.
Jones soon obtained from Freud rights to the English translation of his work and in 1924 the first two volumes of Freud's Collected Papers appeared in translations edited by Jones and supervised by Joan Riviere his former analysand and, at one stage, ardent suitor.
The book also contains five joke ' Test Papers ' interspersed among the chapters, which contain nonsense instructions including the famous " Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once " ( Test Paper V ) and " Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time " ( Test Paper I ) and such unanswerable questions as " How far did the Lords Repellent drive Henry III into the arms of Pedro the Cruel?
He made several other spoken-word recordings, one of his most famous being his one-man album of Charles Dickens's Mr. Pickwick's Christmas, a twenty-minute version of the Christmas chapter from Dickens's The Pickwick Papers.
Tolkien was also aware of the name's Germanic cognates ( Old Norse Aurvandill, Lombardic Auriwandalo ), and the question why the Anglo-Saxon one rather than the Lombardic or Proto-Germanic form should be taken up in the mythology is alluded to in The Notion Club Papers.
" The Aspern Papers " ( 1888 ) is one of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales.
State Papers of Vermont, Volume One: Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General ( VT Secretary of State, 1918 ) lists the name as " Warren's Gore, one of two tracts in Vt. Grant to John Throop and associates, Oct. 27, 1789, as Warren.
Also, within the NSC Staff Papers is a memorandum dated July 3, 1954, from Cutler to his two subordinates, James S. Lay and J. Patrick Cone, explaining how they should handle NSC administrative matters during his absence ; one would assume that if the memorandum to Twining were genuine, Lay or Cone would have signed it.
" Puttermesser and Xanthippe " is the title of one of the chapters of American novelist Cynthia Ozick's 1997 novel The Puttermesser Papers, a National Book Award finalist.
", " No one is illegal " and " Papers for All or No Papers at All!
* In the Animaniacs episode " Papers For Papa " Ernest Hemingway watches Shari and Lamb Chop perform on TV and one of Lamb Chop's button eyes falls off.
In fiction, the " Saracen's Head Inn " in Towcester features in Charles Dickens's novel The Pickwick Papers as one of Mr Pickwick's stopping places along what is now the A5 trunk road.
The heat-sealed paper fiber tea bag was invented by William Hermanson, one of the founders of Technical Papers Corporation of Boston.
In 1970 Fritsch was one of the founders of the Feedback Studio of Cologne ( together with Rolf Gehlhaar and David Johnson ), and has been since 1975 active as the chief protagonist of the " Feedback Studio Verlag ," the first German composers ' publishing house: He is a producer of Compact Discs, editor of the " Feedback Studio Papers " ( one of the journals dedicated to electronic music ), a publisher of scores of contemporary music, and a concert manager.
* Adelina Patti as Juliet ( 1878 ), one of many Patti-related documents housed in the Alfredo Barili Papers at the Georgia Archives.
Artin was one of the leading algebraists of the century, with an influence larger than might be guessed from the one volume of his Collected Papers edited by Serge Lang and John Tate.
" His interest in the Civil War inspired him to write a second series of The Biglow Papers, including one specifically dedicated to the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation called " Sunthin ' in the Pastoral Line " in 1862.
He wrote numerous articles and two books: To End A War, and the co-author of Counsel to the President, and one volume of The Pentagon Papers.
They were later compiled by Jed Hotchkiss and issued in one volume with a map as Papers on the Geology of Virginia ( New York, 1884 ).
Scarborough was one of a group of about 40 freshmen Republican legislators who dubbed themselves the " New Federalists " after the Federalist Papers.

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By what one reader called a `` series of dissolving views '', he merges one period into another and gives a sense of continuous growth.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.
With either of the gradients described, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose separated agglutinins of the ABO series into at least three regions ( Figs. 1 and 2 ): one of extremely low anionic binding capacity, one of low anionic binding capacity and one of high anionic binding capacity.
Physically, a movie is possible because a series of images is projected one at a time at such a speed that the eye `` remembers '' the one that has gone before even as it registers the one now appearing.
It was one of a series of recommendations by the Texas Research League.
With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.
About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.
And in a series of bitterly fought battles in the jungles and hills and along the great rivers of Burma he waged one of the most brilliant campaigns of the war.
The villain ( Cyril Sneer ) and one of the heroes ( Cedric Sneer ) of the 1980s animated television series The Raccoons were aardvarks.
His successor Joe Darling won the next three series in 1899, 1901 – 02 and the classic 1902 series, which became one of the most famous in the history of Test cricket.
The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.
The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.
* 1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another.
Luigi Galvani discovered something he dubbed " animal electricity " when two different metals were connected in series with the frog's leg and to one another.
This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:

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