Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

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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.

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Their daughters Cristina and María both married into the high nobility ; Cristina to Ramiro, Lord of Monzón, grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre via an illegitimate son ; María, first ( it is said ) to a prince of Aragon ( presumably the son of Peter I ) and second to Ramón Berenguer III, count of Barcelona.

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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.

* Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective

Harriet Vane and Saint-George, the undergraduate nephew of Lord Peter, help give variety, and the college setting justifies good intellectual debate.

It was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.

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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.

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.

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.

According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class degree in history.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

In 1977 C. W. Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, published a history of Lord Peter Wimsey's family, going back to 1066 ( but describing the loss of the family tree going back to Adam and Eve ); the book is based on material from his correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote at least two of the family anecdotes in the book, one of them in the French language of the Middle Ages.

Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey book, Clouds of Witness, depicts trial of a peer ( Wimsey's brother ) by the House of Lords.

She also played, on radio, the Dowager Duchess ( Lord Peter Wimsey's mother ) in the radio adaption of Strong Poison that starred Ian Carmichael as Peter Wimsey.

Bunter accompanies Lord Peter on secret missions into Europe for Military Intelligence while Wimsey's nephew St. George is a fighter pilot.

In the 1970s he played Lord Peter Wimsey's valet Bunter opposite Ian Carmichael in the teleplays of several of Dorothy Sayers tales.

Most, such as his repulsive manservant Baldrick and the various imbecilic aristocrats with whose company he is lumbered ( such as Lord Percy Percy or George ), are usually hindrances to him of whom he is repeatedly incapable of ridding himself.

* Mervyn Bunter – Lord Peter's manservant

Today he is remembered by a bronze statue, unveiled by the Lord Mayor of the City of London in 1997, outside the house in Gough Square he shared with Johnson and Barber, Johnson's black manservant and heir.

In the series ' first episode, " Bells ", Blackadder almost marries his manservant Kate, but the wedding is called off when Kate runs off with the best man, Lord Flashheart.

Upon arrival in London, she disguises herself as a man and is hired by Lord Blackadder while his manservant ; he casually kicks Baldrick out onto the streets.

During this whole period, Lord Peter has a manservant called Mervyn Bunter, and in him Ms Sayers created a fictional persona that is fascinating and enigmatic.

Wimsey travelling on train with " rigidly correct manservant ", whom Lord Peter names when he asks Bunter to get the train staff to open up the " commissariat " and secure some food for Langley.

More recently, in 2000 he played the resentful and sarcastic butler Theremin, homicidal manservant to the celebrated occult investigator Lord Zimbabwe, in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Ectoplasm, and he also featured in a series of short Radio 4 programmes on the end of World War II, reading news reports of the time.

It is set in contemporary London, and most of the characters ' names are recognisably linked to Molière's: in the sequence of the above cast list they are Alan, Celia, Phil, Eileen, Orville, Fay ( Arsinoe ), Lord Arne, Chris, and manservant Bates.

* Mervyn Bunter – Lord Peter's valet

Throughout the books, Bunter always takes care to address Wimsey as " My Lord ".

The novel was adapted as a television miniseries in 1972, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Glyn Houston as Bunter.

In 1975, an adaptation starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey and with Peter Jones as Bunter, was made for BBC Radio 4.

Five Red Herrings was adapted for television in 1975 as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Glyn Houston as Bunter.

* Mervyn Bunter, created in 1923 by Dorothy L. Sayers in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, likewise a paragon of discreet competence, taking his duties beyond what was expected of a valet to help his master.

The Egypt series of 1932 ( Magnets # 1277 to # 1284 ) follows the adventures of Billy Bunter, accompanied by Lord Mauleverer and the Famous Five, across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to the North African deserts.

Campion later reprised the role of Bunter ( now Lord Bunter of Hove, who had succeeded in betting shops and property ) in the BBC Radio 7 series Whatever Happened to ...?

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.

Bunter is essentially a comic anti-hero, whose actions puncture and deflate the serious world of the English public school, inverting conventional values like a ' Lord of Misrule '.

He played Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 ), and he later played Bunter, the valet of Lord Peter Wimsey, in the BBC's productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night ( all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels ).

* Mervyn Bunter, butler to Lord Peter Wimsey, a fictional character created by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Mervyn Bunter is a fictional character in Dorothy L. Sayers ' novels and short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

If Lord Peter is in the top rank of society, being a friend of the Prince of Wales ( Clouds of Witness, & Thrones, Dominations ), then Bunter is a prince among domestic staff.

Although he is not allowed crime-solving leaps of imagination, Bunter also regularly assists in the routine processes of deduction, undertaking tasks not suitable for a Lord.

Immediately after the war, Bunter arrived to take up service, as promised, with Lord Peter.

The main negative thing to be said about Bunter is that he seems to have no other interest in life than serving Lord Peter ; he is even ready to give up marriage rather than leave ( Thrones, Dominations ).

1919 ( January ) Lord Peter had promised to take Bunter into service, and the ex-sergeant appeared at the ducal residence surprisingly quickly, in January 1919, only three months after the Armistice of the preceding November.

Terrorisin ’ sort of man, Bunter ", says Lord Peter.