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

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.

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 ?.

Wimsey's brother-in-law and close friend.

There were brief appearances by Geoffrey Russell ( Sir Henry Thorpe ), Desmond Llewelyn ( Sir Charles Thorpe, father of Sir Henry ); Mark Eden ( Detective Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's brother in law ), John Duttine ( Wally Pratt, bellringer ) and Kenneth Colley (" Potty " Peake, local resident )

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

* 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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In contrast, Bunter ( Wimsey's valet ) plays a smaller role in this than in other Wimsey novels.

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.

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.

By the end of the book the villain has been unmasked and Harriet has finally accepted Wimsey's proposal.

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.

* Miss Katharine Climpson – spinster and enquiry agent on Wimsey's behalf

McGregor and Lewis suggest that some of Vane's and Wimsey's observations about mystery in story versus real life — though in the context of a mystery story — reflect Sayers ' sense of fun and ability to laugh with her characters.

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.

He was a conscientious and effective commanding officer, popular with the men under his command — an affection still retained by Wimsey's former soldiers many years after the war, as is evident from a short passage in " Clouds of Witness " and an extensive reminiscence in " Gaudy Night ".

The only one of Wimsey's earlier women to appear on stage is the artist Marjorie Phelps, who plays an important role in " The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club ".

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.

Lord Peter Wimsey's manservant Bunter is putting his Lordship's books away and looks with some curiosity at the chosen few left open on the table, including Housman's " A Shropshire Lad ".

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

There are numerous references to Wimsey's achievements as a cricket blue at Oxford, and an extensive description of a game of cricket is a crucial element in solving the murder in Murder Must Advertise ( 1933 ).

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

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.

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.

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

* Mervyn Bunter – Wimsey's manservant.

Richard discusses this with his former college friend Dirk Gently, who claims to be a " Holistic Detective " believing in the " fundamental interconnectedness of all things ".

Known fellow officers include his friend, Detective Casey.

Garner also invited yet another familiar actor, Joe Santos, who played Rockford's friend in the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Dennis Becker.

Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.

# Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp-Another old friend of Hercule Poirot, who is assigned the case.

Amongst the international tour group is Gabriel's old friend, Detective Mosely, from New Orleans.

Keyes's old friend, Detective Al Garcia is appointed head of a task force to catch the terrorists.

In Detective Comics # 833 ( August 2007 ), it is stated that Zatanna's father was a friend of Thomas Wayne.

* Ruben Blades as Detective Danny Archuleta, a member of Harrigan's team and a long time friend of his.

Only two people were aware of Jonathan's secret, his friend Ty Earl and Police Detective Brooke Mackenzie.

Holmes plays a considerable role at first as Russell's closest friend, her calculating and idiosyncratic mentor, and as time and circumstance conspire, the Great Detective takes up the role of companion detective.

Harald's main nemesis, Police Detective Peter Flemming, is a childhood acquaintance, formerly his older brother's best friend turned bitter enemy after a falling out between the families.

* John Ashton as Detective Sergeant John Taggart, Billy's partner and a friend of Axel who ( along with Billy ) help Axel investigate the attempted murder of their supervisor, Captain Andrew Bogomil.

Hounded by his best friend Kyle Hilliard ( Jamie Marsh ) and Police Detective Hayden ( Frank Langella ), and hiding the truth from girl next door and crush Kimberly ( Amy Hargreaves ), Michael's world comes crashing down in a hectic cacophony that is sure to make one think, " Are you sure you wanna play?

Detective Joe Fontana, Dennis Farina's character on Law & Order, was named for Tom Fontana, who is a close friend of Law & Order creator Dick Wolf.

* Neville " Nev " James ( Treva Etienne ) was a friend of the family who was a Police Constable that later became a Detective Constable CID.

Books carrying Harry Blackstone's byline were ghostwritten for him by his friend, Walter B. Gibson, who also created, in 1941, the comic book Blackstone the Magician Detective and the 1948-49 radio series, Blackstone, the Magic Detective.

Detective ( Named by Player ): A friend of Tamara Lynd and the persona assumed by the player.

In the movie, Logan tries to get his old job back by solving the murder of a prostitute, in the process discovering that his old friend, Detective Tony Profaci, is involved in the crime.

Written in the late 1950s and early ' 60s, the Brains Benton Mysteries chronicle the adventures of young teenagers Barclay " Brains " Benton ( X ) and his friend James " Jimmy " Carson ( Operative Three ); they together form the " Benton and Carson International Detective Agency.

:* Detective Ethan Bennett — He is a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne's.

In ITV's series The Last Detective, featuring " Dangerous " Davies, Hughes plays his friend, the perpetually unemployed and well-read " Mod Lewis " ( he spends all his time at the library to save on heating ).

The book features Chief Inspector Chen Cao and his friend / sidekick Detective Yu.