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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.
Whereupon Wimsey remarks: " Bunter likes me to know my place "

Wimsey and her
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.
In " Busman's Honeymoon " Wimsey facetiously refers to a gentleman's duty " to remember whom he had taken to bed " so as not to embarrass his bedmate by calling her by the wrong name.
There are several references to a relationship with a famous Viennese opera singer, and Bunter-who evidently was involved with this, as with other parts of his master's life-recalls Wimsey being very angry with a French mistress who mistreated her own servant.
Wimsey saves her from the gallows, but she believes that gratitude is not a good foundation for marriage, and politely but firmly declines his frequent proposals.
Wimsey is at her hotel the next morning.
In effect, rather than killing off her detective, as Conan Doyle unsuccessfully tried with his, Sayers pensioned Wimsey off to a happy, satisfying old age.
Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.
Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
Wimsey travels to New York to find her, and makes a trans-Atlantic flight-at the time, a very risky adventure which makes the headlines in all British papers-to return to London before Gerald's trial in the House of Lords ends.
From her, Wimsey brings a letter that Cathcart wrote on the night of his death, after receiving her farewell letter.
Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
The lady's death has aroused no suspicion, despite her doctor's dismay at her end coming so quickly, but Wimsey suspects that it may, after all, have been ' unnatural '.
Wimsey discovers that the patient's great-niece-popular locally-had nursed her through her illness and was the intended heiress.
When Wimsey begins investigating, using the recurring character Miss Climpson as his intelligence agent, the great-niece is provoked into covering her trail.
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
Strong Poison is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Wimsey and .
Also popular were the stories featuring Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance.
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.
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.

likes and her
and in the fact that she bases her decisions about work, college, carreer, and studies on what others are doing, rather than on her own sense of identity with given skills, abilities, likes, and dislikes.
English example: John likes me but not her.
In " There's No Love in Rock and Roll " from True Life Romance ( 1956 ), a defiant teen dates a rock and roll-loving boy but drops him for one who likes traditional adult music — to her parents ' relief.
Crow has stated that her musical inspirations are not restricted to one genre, as she likes absolutely anything with a drum beat.
There were also several references to the Bangles throughout the rest of the series ; Lorelei expresses how much she likes the band on multiple occasions while Paris states that she " really likes " the band, and tells Rory that the concert was the best night of her life.
A Sesame Street cartoon from the early 1970s features a hippo who lives in the country and likes it quiet, while being disturbed when the mouse who likes it loud moves in with her.
While Miss Crawley likes Becky and keeps her around to entertain her with sarcasm and wit, and while she loves scandal and particularly stories of unwise marriage, she does not want scandal or unwise marriage in her family.
" The filming timetable afforded her opportunity to indulge in types of activities that undoubtedly would not have been broadcast to the likes of Hedda Hopper or her reading public.
Lord Robert has come so much into favour that he does whatever he likes with affairs and it is even said that her majesty visits him in his chamber day and night.
She likes to collect cute things and her favorite subjects in school are English, music and art.
He likes her because she is as independent minded as he is, and she enjoys the same things that he does.
She very much likes Tom, a boy her age, but when he proposes to her she rejects him (" I don't love yer so as ter marry yer ").
Susan believes David is a zoologist rather than a paleontologist, and she is very persistent in getting David to go to her country home in Connecticut to help her take care of Baby, which includes singing " I Can't Give You Anything But Love " which Baby likes.
The excitement of a brawl with the Mayor's vampires helps him see that Drusilla left him because he had begun to go soft ; he resolves to win her back by torturing her until she likes him again, and tells Buffy where to find Willow and Xander.

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