Milligan is linked to a big cocaine-selling ring which Wimsey's friend and brother-in-law Chief Inspector Parker is investigating.

* Charles Parker – police detective ; Wimsey's future brother-in-law

The plot is told through the viewpoint of Wimsey, and of the various police investigating the case ( including Wimsey's brother-in-law Charles Parker, involved because a suspect is in hiding in London ).

Inspector Parker, Wimsey's friend, is investigating this.

There is a passing reference in the book to Freddy Arbuthnot, Wimsey's friend and contact for the stock market, being in love with Sir Reuben Levy's daughter Rachel and wanting to marry her.

* Detective-Inspector Charles Parker – Wimsey's friend

* Detective-Inspector Charles Parker – Wimsey's friend.

Wimsey's friend, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, conclusively disproves this notion, but Wimsey has planted a spy, Miss Joan Murchison, in Urquhart ’ s office and discovers the real culprit is Urquhart.

Also the Honourable Freddy Arbuthnot, Wimsey's friend and contact for the stock market, in this book finds a long-delayed domestic bliss with Rachel, the daughter of Sir Reuben Levy who was murdered in Whose Body ?.

At the end of the book, Harriet Vane finally accepts Wimsey's proposal of marriage.

A subplot in the book is Peter Wimsey's role as an informal envoy of the British Foreign Ministry, called upon to help defuse international crises where more conventional diplomats have failed.

In the frame of the book's plot, Wimsey's diplomatic obligations serve as a plot device to keep him away from Britain, and leave Harriet on her own for most of the book, to try to resolve the mystery at Oxford without his help.

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.

After sharing what the Dowager Duchess referred to as " a jam ", the two arranged that if they were both to survive the war, Bunter would become Wimsey's valet.

It is not exactly known when Wimsey recruited Miss Climpson to run an undercover employment agency for women, a means to garner information from the otherwise inaccessible world of spinsters and widows, but it is prior to Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), in which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient.

Only Wimsey's mother and sister, the loyal Bunter and Inspector Parker knew he was still alive.

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.

That night, Tallboy comes to Wimsey's flat and confesses.

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

Wimsey's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, telephones to say that Thipps, an architect hired to do some work on her local church, has just found a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath in his flat.

The book establishes many of Wimsey's character traits-for example, his interest in rare books, the nervous problems associated with his wartime shell-shock, and his ambiguous feelings about catching criminals for a hobby-and also introduces many characters who recur in later novels, such as Parker, Bunter, Sugg, and the Dowager Duchess.

* Mervyn Bunter – Wimsey's manservant.

Harriet is tried, but the result is a " hung " jury, thanks in no small part to the presence of Wimsey's aide, Miss Climpson, on the jury.

Into Washington on President-elect John F. Kennedy's Convair, the Caroline, winged Actor-Crooner Frank Sinatra and his close Hollywood pal, Cinemactor Peter Lawford, Jack Kennedy's brother-in-law.

Among her rumored lovers were her close friend, the princesse de Lamballe, and her handsome brother-in-law, the comte d ' Artois, with whom the queen had a good rapport.

His personal relationship with his brother-in-law Trotsky, which was good in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution and during the Russian Civil War, soured after 1920 and for the next 15 years he was a friend and close ally of Grigory Zinoviev, a more ambitious man than Kamenev.

Many of the problems of Robert III ’ s rule, Boardman argues, stemmed from the death of his brother-in-law and close ally James, earl of Douglas at Otterburnn in 1388 when his deliberately constructed and powerful affinity south of the Forth crumbled.

Amazingly, within a year of his death ten of his close relatives died, including his sister Abigail, his wife Eliza, his brother-in-law William L. Storrs, Joseph and Eliza's daughter Eliza, their son-in-law Lucius Robinson and Lucius ' father David Robinson.

While Rafael snuck into the camp to gain intelligence-Hammond became impatient and mistakenly rode too close to the camp and the sound of the horses ' hooves in mud alerted Rafael's sister's brother-in-law and his future father-in-law Captain Jose Alipas who had arrived with a small force with Captain Leonardo Cota, and José María Ibarra the Californio standing guard.

He was brother-in-law to Stonewall Jackson, a close friend to both James Longstreet and Joseph E. Johnston, but disagreements with both Robert E. Lee and Braxton Bragg cost him favor with Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

On the set, Best was particularly close to Sorrell Booke, who played the character of Boss Hogg, who was both the boss and the brother-in-law of Rosco.

That performance used new designs by Falla's close friend, the artist Ignacio Zuloaga, and new marionettes carved by Zuloaga's brother-in-law, Maxime Dethomas.

Inzerillo's brother-in-law, Rosario Spatola, who in his youth peddled watered milk in the streets of Palermo, became Palermo ’ s largest building contractor and biggest taxpayer of Sicily, thanks to his close relationship with Christian Democrat politician Vito Ciancimino.

While with the solicitor he had made the acquaintance of Alexandre Goujon, and they soon became close friends-he married Goujon's sister, Sophie ( on 5 March 1793 ), and when his brother-in-law was elected deputy to the National Convention and sent as a representative-on-mission to the Revolutionary Armies of the Moselle and Rhine, Tissot went with him as his secretary.

E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.

Appeared in the 1848, Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the diary of the eponymous tenant inside it.

The band soon met their first manager, Allan Coffman, " the thirty-eight-year-old brother-in-law of Mick ’ s driver friend Stick ".

Pitt was personally saddened when his friend and brother-in-law Thomas Grenville was killed at the naval First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747.

Set in San Francisco, the show chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner, who, after the death of his wife, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis to help raise his three daughters, D. J., Stephanie, and Michelle.

After sportswriter Danny Tanner's wife Pam is killed in a collision by a drunk driver, he recruits his brother-in-law Jesse ( a rock musician ) and quirky best friend Joey ( a comedian ) to help raise his three daughters, D. J., Stephanie, and Michelle, in his San Francisco home.

At the Battle of Agagia Ja ’ far was captured by the British led forces and incarcerated in a citadel in Cairo with his friend and later brother-in-law Nuri as-Said.

As the brother-in-law of Francis Walsingham and the friend of Lord Burghley, he was, however, always heard with attention in the Privy Council, the Star Chamber, and in Parliament.

Loos and Emerson turned down another picture with Davies, preferring to write for their old friend Constance Talmadge, whose brother-in-law Joseph Schenck ( husband of Norma Talmadge ) was an independent producer.

His elder brother, Mohammad Deen, had a friend, Abdul Hameed, ( future brother-in-law ), who spotted the talent in Rafi in Lahore and encouraged him to sing.

On March 14, 1989, the day Abbey died from esophageal bleeding at 62, Peacock, along with his friend Jack Loeffler, his father-in-law Tom Cartwright, and his brother-in-law Steve Prescott, wrapped Abbey's body in his blue sleeping bag, packed it with dry ice, and loaded Cactus Ed into Loeffler's Chevy pickup.

Silverstein became involved in real estate, together with his father, Harry G. Silverstein, and then friend and brother-in-law, Bernard Mendik.

In 2010 Affleck released his first major directorial effort, I'm Still Here, a mockumentary about the musical career of his friend and brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, who attempted to live a lifestyle of a rapper in one year.

On October 28, 1824, Coffin married long-time friend Catherine White, the sister of his brother-in-law.

Polybius was a client of Scipio's brother-in-law Aemilius Paullus ( who died suddenly in the same year 160 BC ), and became a friend to both his sons, notably Scipio Aemilianus ( Africanus's adoptive grandson ).

His son George Palaiologos was a friend of Alexios I Komnenos and brother-in-law to Alexios ' wife Irene Doukaina.

However, the ancient vocative declensions have survived ( mostly in conserved, archaic words or language, e. g. in fairy tales, folklore, or in an ironic sense ) in some words, some examples: syn ( son )-V: synku, brat ( brother )-V: bratu, bratku ), chlapec ( boy, knave )-V: chlapče ), švagor ( brother-in-law )-V: švagre or N, kmotor ( godparent )-V: kmotre or N ), chlap ( man, male )-V: chlape, priateľ ( friend ) V: priateľu or N, pán ( mister, lord )-V: pane or N ), majster ( master artist )-V: majstre or N ), boh ( god )-V: bože, mama ( mum, mother )-V: mamo, mami ) and was retrofitted ( with the help of Czech influence ) to some more words, like šéf ( chief, boss )-V: šéfe.

Her other variety of roles include: Daag: The Fire ( 1999 ), where she played a nasty prostitute ; in Pyaar Koi Khel Nahin ( 1999 ) she played a widow forced to marry her brother-in-law ; in Dhadkan ( 2000 ) she is a loving friend of a man who is madly in love with another woman ; in Deewane she plays a singer in love with a thief ; in Kurukshetra she plays the stubborn wife of a police officer ; in Lajja she plays a young bride forced to fight dowry ; in Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar ( 2001 ) she plays a stubborn tenant who will not give up her home at any cost ; in Om Jai Jagadish she is the loving homemaker ; in Dil Hai Tumhaara she is the loving sister who would do anything for her sister's happiness ; in Dobara she is the frustrated housewife ; in The Film she is a desperate struggling screenwriter ; in Zameer: The Fire Within she's a paralytic dancer, in Film Star she is an uptight arrogant fading actress ; in Home Delivery: Aapko ... Ghar Tak ( 2005 ) she is an actress who will do anything to get into a big movie ; and in Souten ( 2006 ) she plays a desperate housewife who has an affair with her stepdaughter's boyfriend.

He is best known for his Academy Award-nominated role as Sylvester Stallone's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie in the Rocky film series.

The playwright Ion Luca Caragiale was a friend of mayor Condeescu, whom he parodied in his work ; the latter's conversations with Caragiale and with Mihai Eminescu's brother Matei, a soldier assigned to Mizil and who became the mayor's brother-in-law, convinced him to build a theatre.