Who’s Lord Peter Wimsey?

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Lord Peter Wimsey, whose full name is Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, is a British detective aristocrat created by Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the first women to receive an Oxford degree. As many detectives have both a partner and an official police representative, so does Lord Peter Wimsey. His butler, Mervyn Bunter, who served with Wimsey in World War I, assists in his investigation, and Chief Inspector Charles Parker of Scotland Yard, who later becomes Wimsey’s brother-in-law, provides police presence.

Due to Wimsey’s unusual range of talents and the particular crimes he works on, a number of passages are devoted to a number of different subjects, such as cricket, ring changing and advertising copy writing. Harriet Vane, author of crime novels, provides the love interest in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. They meet when he helps clear her of a murder charge, go on to investigate several crimes together, and eventually get married and have three children.

Lord Peter Wimsey’s novels were published in the 1920s and 1930s, the last – Thrones, Dominations – left unfinished at Sayers’ death, completed by English writer Jill Paton Walsh. Walsh then went on to write another novel based on Sayers’ character, this one entitled A Presumption of Death.

In the 1970s and 1980s the BBC serialized eight of Lord Peter Wimsey’s eleven novels. The previous group was The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Nine Tailors and Five Red Herrings with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey. The latter group was Strong Poison – known as Lord Peter Wimsey in the US, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night, in which Edward Petherbridge played Lord Peter Wimsey. Several versions of Busman’s Honeymoon were filmed in the 1940s, while Unnatural Death and Whose Body? they were never produced.

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