Heavenly Worldliness: 10 Fictional Addresses of 10 Fictional Detectives CHBC Sermons Bonhoeffer uses a similar phrase 'worldly Christianity'. It's J Gresham Machen that I want to line up most closely with. See his Christianity and culture here . Having done commentaries on Proverbs (Heavenly Wisdom) and Song of Songs (Heavenly Love), a matching title for Ecclesiastes would be Heavenly Worldliness. For my stance on worldliness, see 3 posts here . 10 Fictional Addresses of 10 Fictional Detectives 1. Sherlock Holmes, 221B Baker St, London W1, England (Arthur Conan Doyle) 2. Hercule Poirot, 56B Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London W1, England (Agatha Christie) 3. Miss Marple, Danemead, High Street, St Mary Mead, England (Agatha Christie) 4. Jules Maigret, 132 Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, Paris, France (Georges Simenon) 5.

Sam Spade, 891 Post St, San Franciso, CA, USA (Dashiell Hammett) 6. Philip Marlowe, #615 Cahuenga Bldg, Hollywood Blvd, LA CA, USA (Raymond Chandler) 7. John Rebus, 17 Arden Street, St Leonards, Edinburgh, Scotland (Ian Rankin) 8. Lord Peter Wimsey, 110A Piccadilly, London W1 and Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk, England (Dorothy L Sayers) 9. Brother Cadfael, Shrewsbury Abbey, Shrewsbury, Salop, England (Ellis Peters) 10. Albert Campion, 17a Bottle St, Piccadilly, London W1, England (Marjorie Allingham) : A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought... - Quote Conversation A bit about Lord Peter Wimsey ... 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 murder mysteries.

The novels have a setting contemporary to when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s (or early 1940s if one includes A Presumption of Death). Wimsey is described as a man in early middle age, of at best average height with straw-colored hair and a vaguely foolish face (reputedly his looks were patterned after academic Roy Ridley), though he also possessed considerable athletic ability, especially at cricket. Sayers peppered the Wimsey stories with many locations and details from her own life, with her hero's abundant wealth being in contrast to the penury that led her to try her hand at detective fiction. Wimsey's London home is at 110A Piccadilly, W1, from which he moves upon his marriage to a townhouse on Audley Square, in the heart of Mayfair. The ancestral home of the Wimseys is Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk. The 'original' Denver is a village on the A10 near Downham Market in the west of the county; Duke's Denver (fictional like the dukedom it gives its name to) lies some fifteen miles beyond.

These people bookmarked this quote: Learn and talk about Lord Peter Wimsey, Balliol College, Oxford, Characters in British novels of the 20th century, Dorothy L. Sayers characters, Fictional World War I veterans Nationality British Lord Peter Death [1] Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh ) in which he solves mysteries—usually murders. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective . Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman Mervyn Bunter , his good friend and later brother-in-law Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles Parker , and later by his future wife Harriet Vane . Born in the year 1890 and aging in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose , and a vaguely foolish face.

Reputedly his looks were patterned after those of academic and poet Roy Ridley , whom Sayers briefly met in a relationship after witnessing him read his Newdigate Prize-winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913. He also possessed considerable intelligence and athletic ability, evidenced by his playing cricket for Oxford University while earning a First . He created a spectacularly successful publicity campaign for Whifflet cigarettes while working for Pym's Publicity Ltd, and at age 40 was able to turn three cartwheels in the office corridor, stopping just short of the boss's open office door ( Murder Must Advertise ). Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition to criminology, is collecting incunabula , books from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food (especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach 's works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which (like all his cars) he calls "Mrs Merdle" after a character in Charles Dickens ' Little Dorrit who "hated fuss".

Background[ edit ] 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 . [2] This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that" (as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ). The family coat of arms is blazoned as " Sable , 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "As my Whimsy takes me." [3] Early life[ edit ] Lord Peter was 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.

The Dowager Duchess is witty and intelligent, and strongly supports her younger son, whom she plainly prefers over his less intelligent, more conventional older brother, Gerald , the 16th Duke. 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. So does Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter, who leans strongly to the political left and scandalizes her family by marrying a policeman of working class origins. Lord Peter Wimsey is called "Lord" by courtesy as the son of a Duke. He is not a peer and has no right to sit in the House of Lords, nor does this courtesy usage pass on to any offspring he may have. 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. According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford , graduating with a first -class degree in history.

He was also an outstanding cricketer , whose performance would still be well remembered decades later, leading to the near unmasking of his incognito in Murder Must Advertise . Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford. At this time, Lord Peter was considerably influenced by his maternal uncle Paul Delagardie, who took it upon himself to instruct his nephew in the facts of life as Paul himself understood them – i.e. to conduct various love affairs, often in the more permissive atmosphere of France, and treat his various lovers respectfully but avoid any deep emotional entanglements. Great War and aftermath[ edit ] To his uncle's disappointment, Peter fell deeply in love with a young woman named Barbara and became engaged to her. When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Army , releasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated. The girl later married another, less principled, officer. Wimsey served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade . He was appointed an Intelligence Officer , and on one occasion he infiltrated the staff room of a German officer.

[4] Though not explicitly stated, that feat implies that Wimsey spoke a fluent and unaccented German. As noted in Have His Carcase , he communicated at that time with British Intelligence using the Playfair cipher and became proficient in its use. For reasons never clarified, after the end of his spy mission, Wimsey in the later part of the war moved from Intelligence and resumed the role of a regular line officer. 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 . In particular, while in the army he met Sergeant Mervyn Bunter , who had previously been in service . In 1918, Wimsey was severely wounded by artillery fire near Caudry in France. He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home.

After sharing this experience, which the Dowager Duchess referred to as "a jam", Wimsey and Bunter arranged that if they were both to survive the war, Bunter would become Wimsey's valet . Throughout the books, Bunter takes care to address Wimsey as "My Lord". 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. After the war he was ill for many months, recovering at the family's ancestral home in Duke's Denver, a fictional setting—as is the Dukedom of Denver— about 15 miles (24 km) beyond the real Denver in Norfolk, on the A10 near Downham Market . Wimsey was for a time unable to give servants any orders whatsoever, since his wartime experience made him associate the giving of an order with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given. Bunter arrived and, with the approval of the Dowager Duchess, took up his post as valet. Bunter moved Wimsey to a London flat at 110A Piccadilly , W1 , while Wimsey recovered.

Even much later, however, Wimsey would have relapses—especially when his actions caused a murderer to be hanged. As noted in Whose Body? , on such occasions Bunter would take care of Wimsey and tenderly put him to bed, and they would revert to being "Major Wimsey" and "Sergeant Bunter". Detective work[ edit ] Lord Peter begins his hobby of investigation by recovering The Attenbury Emeralds in 1921. At the beginning of Whose Body? there appears the unpleasant Inspector Sugg, who is extremely hostile to Wimsey and tries to exclude him from the investigation (reminiscent of the relations between Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Lestrade ). However, Wimsey is able to bypass Sugg through his friendship with Scotland Yard detective Charles Parker , a sergeant in 1921. At the end of "Whose Body?", Wimsey generously allows Sugg to take completely undeserved credit for the solution; the grateful Sugg cannot go on with his hostility to Wimsey.

In later books, Sugg fades away and Wimsey's relations with the police become dominated by his amicable partnership with Parker, who eventually rises to the rank of Commander. Bunter, a man of many talents himself, not least photography, often proves instrumental in Peter's investigations. However, Wimsey is not entirely well. At the end of the investigation in Whose Body? (1923) Wimsey hallucinates that he is back in the trenches. He soon recovers his senses and goes on a long holiday. The next year, he travels (in Clouds of Witness , 1926) to the fictional Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire to assist his older brother Gerald, who has been accused of murdering Captain Denis Cathcart, their sister's fiancé. As Gerald is the Duke of Denver, he is tried by the entire House of Lords, as required by the law at that time, to much scandal and the distress of his wife Helen. Their sister, Lady Mary, also falls under suspicion. Lord Peter clears the Duke and Lady Mary, to whom Parker is attracted. As a result of the slaughter of men in the First World War, there was in the UK a considerable imbalance between the sexes.

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. As recounted in the short story "The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba", in December 1927 Wimsey fakes his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika , to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang. Only Wimsey's mother and sister, the loyal Bunter and Inspector Parker know he is still alive. Emerging victorious after more than a year masquerading as "the disgruntled sacked servant Rogers", Wimsey remarks that "We shall have an awful time with the lawyers, proving that I am me." In fact, he returns smoothly to his old life, and the interlude is never referred to in later books. During the 1920s, Wimsey has affairs with various women, which are the subject of much gossip in Britain and Europe.

This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he meets Harriet Vane and relations with other women become a closed chapter. 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. The only one of Wimsey's earlier women to appear in person is the artist Marjorie Phelps, who plays an important role in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club . She has known Wimsey for years and is attracted to him, though it is not explicitly stated whether they were lovers. Wimsey likes her, respects her, and enjoys her company – but that isn't enough.

In Strong Poison , she is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realise that he has fallen in love with Harriet. In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane , a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover. He falls in love with her at first sight. 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. Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth. They marry and have a son, named Charles Peter ("Peterkin"), and a daughter, Mary Lucasta ("Polly"). While on a fishing holiday in Scotland, Wimsey instigates and takes part in the investigation of the murder of an artist, related in Five Red Herrings . Despite the rejection of his marriage proposal, he continues to court Miss Vane. In Have His Carcase , he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's south coast.

Wimsey is at her hotel the next morning. He not only investigates the death and offers proposals of marriage, but also acts as Harriet's patron and protector from press and police. Despite a prickly relationship, they work together to identify the murderer. Back in London, Wimsey goes undercover as "Death Bredon" at an advertising firm, working as a copywriter ( Murder Must Advertise ). Bredon is framed for murder, leading Charles Parker to "arrest" Bredon for murder in front of numerous witnesses. To distinguish Death Bredon from Lord Peter Wimsey, Parker smuggles Wimsey out of the police station and urges him to get into the papers. Accordingly, Wimsey accompanies "a Royal personage" to a public event, leading the press to carry pictures of both "Bredon" and Wimsey. In 1934 (in The Nine Tailors ) Wimsey must unravel a 20-year-old case of missing jewels; an unknown corpse; a missing World War I soldier believed alive; a murderous escaped convict believed dead; and a mysterious code concerning church bells.

By 1935 Lord Peter is in continental Europe, acting as an unofficial attaché to the British Foreign Office . Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ). At the end of their investigation, Vane finally accepts Wimsey's proposal of marriage. The couple marry on 8 October 1935, at St. Cross Church , Oxford, as depicted in the opening collection of letters and diary entries in Busman's Honeymoon . The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, which Peter has bought for her as a wedding present. There they find the body of the previous owner, and spend their honeymoon solving the case, thus having the eponymous "Busman's Honeymoon".

Over the next five years, according to Sayers' short stories, the Wimseys have three sons: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (born in October 1936 in the story "The Haunted Policeman"); Roger Wimsey (born 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born 1940). However, according to the wartime publications of The Wimsey Papers, published in The Spectator , the second son was called Paul. In The Attenbury Emeralds, Paul is again the second son and Roger is the third son. In the subsequent The Late Scholar, Roger is not mentioned at all. It may be presumed that Paul is named after Lord Peter's maternal uncle Paul Delagardie. "Roger" is an ancestral Wimsey name. Sayers told friends orally that Harriet and Peter were to eventually have five children in all.[ citation needed ] In Sayers' final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story "Talboys", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

Peter and the accused set off to investigate and, of course, prove Bredon's innocence. Fictional bibliography[ edit ] Incunabulum: Lord Peter has a noted collection of early editions of Dante , including an Aldine edition of The Divine Comedy (Whose Body?) Wimsey is described as having authored numerous books, among them the following fictitious works: Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula The stories[ edit ] Dorothy Sayers wrote 11 Wimsey novels and a number of short stories featuring Wimsey and his family . Other recurring characters include Inspector Charles Parker, the family solicitor Mr. Murbles, barrister Sir Impey Biggs, newshound Salcombe Hardy, and financial whiz the Honourable Freddy Arbuthnot, who finds himself entangled in the case in the first of the Wimsey books, 1923's Whose Body? . Sayers wrote no more Wimsey murder mysteries, and only one story involving him, after the outbreak of the Second World War .

In one of The Wimsey Papers , a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to Harriet's difficulty in continuing to write murder mysteries at a time when European dictators were openly committing mass murders with impunity; this seems to have reflected Sayers' own wartime feeling. The Wimsey Papers included a reference to Wimsey and Bunter setting out during the war on a secret mission of espionage in Europe, and provide the ironic epitaph Wimsey writes for himself: Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity. The papers also incidentally show that in addition to his thorough knowledge of the classics of English literature, Wimsey is familiar – though in fundamental disagreement – with the works of Karl Marx , and well able to debate with Marxists on their home ground. The only occasion when Sayers returned to Wimsey was the 1942 short story "Talboys". The war at that time devastating Europe received only a single oblique reference. Though Sayers lived until 1957, she never again took up the Wimsey books after this final effort.

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. Thus, Peter Wimsey remained forever fixed on the background of inter-war England, and the books are nowadays often read for their evocation of that period as much as for the intrinsic detective mysteries. It was left to Jill Paton Walsh to extend Wimsey's career through and beyond the Second World War. In the continuations A Presumption of Death and The Attenbury Emeralds Wimsey and Bunter have returned successfully from their secret mission in 1940 and his nephew Lord St. George is killed while serving as an RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain . Consequently, when Wimsey's brother dies of a heart attack in 1951 during a fire in Bredon Hall at Duke's Denver, Wimsey becomes the Duke of Denver. Origins[ edit ] In How I Came to Invent the Character of Lord Peter Wimsey, [5] Sayers wrote: Lord Peter's large income... I deliberately gave him...

After all it cost me nothing and at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. When I was dissatisfied with my single unfurnished room I took a luxurious flat for him in Piccadilly. When my cheap rug got a hole in it, I ordered him an Aubusson carpet. When I had no money to pay my bus fare I presented him with a Daimler double-six, upholstered in a style of sober magnificence, and when I felt dull I let him drive it. I can heartily recommend this inexpensive way of furnishing to all who are discontented with their incomes. It relieves the mind and does no harm to anybody. Janet Hitchman, in the preface to Striding Folly , remarks that "Wimsey may have been the sad ghost of a wartime lover(...). Oxford, as everywhere in the country, was filled with bereaved women, but it may have been more noticeable in university towns where a whole year's intake could be wiped out in France in less than an hour." There is, however, no verifiable evidence of any such World War I lover of Sayers on whom the character of Wimsey might be based.

Another theory is that Wimsey was based, at least in part, on Eric Whelpton , who was a close friend of Sayers at Oxford. Ian Carmichael , who played the part of Wimsey in the first BBC television 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. The novels are set in Britain contemporaneously with when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s. Sayers' final Wimsey story "Talboys" is set in 1942. Social satire[ edit ] Many episodes in the Wimsey books express a mild satire of the British class system , in particular in depicting the relationship between Wimsey and Bunter. The two of them are clearly the best and closest of friends, yet Bunter is invariably punctilious in using "my lord" even when they are alone, and "his lordship" in company.

In a brief passage written from Bunter's point of view in Busman's Honeymoon Bunter is seen, even in the privacy of his own mind, to be thinking of his employer as "His Lordship". Wimsey and Bunter even mock the Jeeves and Wooster relationship. In Whose Body? , when Wimsey is caught by a severe recurrence of his First World War shell-shock and nightmares and being taken care of by Bunter, the two of them revert to being "Major Wimsey" and "Sergeant Bunter". In that role, Bunter – sitting at the bedside of the sleeping Wimsey – is seen to mutter affectionately "Bloody little fool!" [6] In "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran", the staunchly democratic Doctor Hartman invites Bunter to sit down to eat together with himself and Wimsey, at the doctor's modest apartment. Wimsey does not object, but Bunter strongly does: "If I may state my own preference, sir, it would be to wait upon you and his lordship in the usual manner". Whereupon Wimsey remarks: "Bunter likes me to know my place".

[7] At the conclusion of Strong Poison , Inspector Parker asks "What would one naturally do if one found one's water-bottle empty?" (a point of crucial importance in solving the book's mystery). Wimsey promptly answers "Ring the bell." Whereupon Miss Murchison, the indefatigable investigator employed by Wimsey for much of this book, comments "Or, if one wasn't accustomed to be waited on, one might use the water from the bedroom jug." George Orwell was highly critical of this aspect of the Wimsey books: "... Even she [Sayers] is not so far removed from Peg's Paper as might appear at a casual glance. It is, after all, a very ancient trick to write novels with a lord for a hero. Where Miss Sayers has shown more astuteness than most is in perceiving that you can carry that kind of thing off a great deal better if you pretend to treat it as a joke. By being, on the surface, a little ironical about Lord Peter Wimsey and his noble ancestors, she is enabled to lay on the snobbishness ('his lordship' etc.) much thicker than any overt snob would dare to do".

[8] Dramatic adaptations[ edit ] In 1935, the British film The Silent Passenger was released, in which Lord Peter (played by Peter Haddon ) solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the English Channel . Sayers disliked the film and James Brabazon describes it as an "oddity, in which Dorothy's contribution was altered out of all recognition." The novel Busman's Honeymoon was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne. A 1940 film of Busman's Honeymoon (US: The Haunted Honeymoon ), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released (with Seymour Hicks as Bunter), but the characters and events bore little resemblance to Sayers' writing, and she refused to even see the film. A more faithful BBC television version of the play, with Harold Warrender as Lord Peter, was transmitted live on 2 October 1947. A second live BBC version was broadcast on 3 October 1957, with Peter Gray as Wimsey. The cover of Gaudy Night, from the BBC series.

Featuring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey Several other Lord Peter Wimsey novels were also made into television productions by the BBC, in two separate series. Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael , with Bunter being played by Glyn Houston (with Derek Newark stepping in for The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club), in a series of separate serials under the umbrella title Lord Peter Wimsey, that ran between 1972 and 1975, adapting five novels (Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors). Edward Petherbridge also played Lord Peter for BBC Television in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey/Vane novels (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night) were dramatised under the umbrella title A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery. Harriet Vane was played by Harriet Walter and Bunter was played by Richard Morant .

The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn Busman's Honeymoon into a proposed fourth and last part of the planned 13-episode series, so the series was produced as ten episodes. Both the 1970s productions and the 1987 series are now available on videotape and DVD. Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard . Both sets of adaptations were critically successful, with both Carmichael and Petherbridge's respective performances being widely praised, however both portrayals are quite different from one another: Carmichael's Peter is eccentric, jolly and foppish with occasional glimpses of the inner wistful, romantic soul, whereas Petherbridge's portrayal was more calm, solemn and had a stiff upper lip, subtly downplaying many of the character's eccentricities. Ian Carmichael returned as Lord Peter in radio adaptations of the novels made by the BBC, all of which have been available on cassette and CD from the BBC Radio Collection .

These co-starred Peter Jones as Bunter. In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973–83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night , perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David . The CD also includes a panel discussion on the novel, the major participants in which are P. D. James and Jill Paton Walsh . Gaudy Night was released as an unabridged audio book read by Ian Carmichael in 1993. Original courtesy of Wikipedia: — Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. We're sorry, but there's no news about "Lord Peter Wimsey" right now. Limit to books that you can completely read online Include partial books (book previews) Oops, we seem to be having trouble contacting Twitter Support Wikipedia A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. Please add your support for Wikipedia! Searchlight Group Digplanet also receives support from Searchlight Group.

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1 *13 Rue del Percebe (comic of same name by Francisco Ibanez) A * Abbott family (Bless This House) - Birch Avenue, Putney, UK * The Addams Family - Cemetery Ridge, USA * Alexander, Susan (Citizen Kane) - 185 West 74th Street, New York, New York * Anderson family (Father Knows Best) - 607 South Maple Street, USA * Larry Appleton and his cousin Balki Bartokomous (Perfect Strangers) - 711 Calhoun Street, Chicago, Illinois * Jon Arbuckle and his pets (Garfield) - alternately 711 Maple Street, USA (comic strip) or 357 Shady Grove Lane, USA (TV series) * Lew Archer's office (series of novels) - 8411 1/2 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California * Avengers Mansion Headquarters of the Avengers - 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City B * Barone family (Everybody Loves Raymond) - 320 Fowler Street, Lynbrook, New York (Long Island) * Batman - Wayne Manor, Gotham City, USA * Baxter family (Hazel) -

 123 Marshall Road, Hydsberg, New York * Mr.

Bear & others (comic strip Achewood) - 62 Achewood Court * Mr Benn - 52 Festive Road, Putney, London, UK * Frank Black and Family (Millennium) - 1910 Ezekiel Drive, Seattle, WA * Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) - 12 Grimmauld Place, London, UK * Leopold Bloom - 7 Eccles St.

* Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers) - 1060 West Addison Street, Chicago, Illinois (Wrigley Field) (according to his driver's license) * Charlie Bone and family (Children of the Red King) - Number 9 Filbert Street * Ed and Christopher Boone (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) - 36 Randolph Street, Swindon * Boswell family (Bread) - 30 Kelsall Street, Liverpool * The Bower Agency (Who's the Boss?) - 323 East 57th Street, New York, New York * Bower family (Who's the Boss?) - 3344 Oak Hills Drive, Fairfield, Connecticut * The Brady Bunch - 4222 Clinton Way, Los Angeles, California * Emmett Brown (Back to the Future) - 1640 Riverside Drive, Hill Valley, California * Hyacinth Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances) - Blossom Avenue, UK * Bueller family (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - 164 North Dutton Street, Santa Monica, CA (This is in the 1990 NBC sitcom.

In the original film, the Buellers lived in Shermer, Illinois, also the setting for The Breakfast Club and, possibly, the homes of Neal Page from Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the McAllister family from Home Alone, all films directed by John Hughes.) * Phoebe Buffay (Friends) - 5 Morton St. Apt. 14. New York City New York (Manhattan) USA * Bundy family (Married...

with Children) - 9764 Jeopardy Lane, Chicago, Illinois * Bunker family (All in the Family) - 704 Hauser Street, New York City, New York (Astoria, Queens) * Burber family - 9 Chickweed Lane (daily comic strip of the same name) * Bureau de l'Invisible (French novel series) - 28 Crawford Street, a corner away from Baker Street in London * Montgomery Burns (The Simpsons) - 1000 Mammon Lane, Springfield, USA C * Minnie Caldwell (Coronation Street) - 15 Jubilee Terrace until 1962, then 5 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Carey, Drew (The Drew Carey Show) - 720 Sedgewick, Cleveland, Ohio * Blake Carrington (Dynasty) - 173 Essex Drive, Denver, CO * Cheers - 112 1/2 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts. (This is the address given on the show, though the Bull & Finch Pub, the real-life basis for the bar, is at 84 Beacon Street.

This may have been an attempt to keep fan letters from going to the real-life counterpart.) * Clampett family (Beverly Hillbillies) - 518 Crestview Drive, Beverly Hills, California * Joan Clayton (Girlfriends) - 700 block of North Wilton Place, Los Angeles, California * Cleaver family (Leave it to Beaver) - 485 Maple Street (later 211 Pine Street), Mayfield, USA * The Colbys - Belvedere Mansion, Los Angeles, California * Conner family (Roseanne) - 714 Delaware, Lanford IL * Dr.

Frasier Crane and Martin Crane - Apartment 1901, Elliott Bay Towers, Seattle, Washington * Cunningham family (Happy Days) - 565 North Clinton Drive, Milwaukee, WI D * Darcy, Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice) - Pemberley, Derbyshire, England * Dethklok (Metalocalypse) - Mordhaus, exact location unknown * Blanche Devereaux, who owns the house and rents rooms to Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nylund, and Sophia Petrillo, (The Golden Girls) - 6151 Richmond Street, Miami, Florida *The Doctor, (Doctor Who comic strip and Virgin New Adventures) - Smithwood Manor, Allen Road, Kent, England * Dolittle, Dr. John (Doctor Dolittle series of books) - Oxenthorpe Road, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, Slopshire, England * Donald Duck - 1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg, Calisota * Dursley family (Harry Potter books) - 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, UK *Durden, Tyler (Fight Club) - 420 Paper St.

Wilmington, DE 19886 E * Lord Emsworth (novels of P. G. Wodehouse) - Blandings Castle, Shropshire *The Evans family (Good Times) -321 North Gilbert, Chicago, IL * Ewing family (Dallas) - Southfork Ranch, Braddock County, Texas, USA F * The Fantastic Four - The Baxter Building, New York, New York.

* Basil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers) - Fawlty Towers Hotel, Torquay, Torbay, UK * The Flanders family (The Simpsons) - 740 Evergreen Terrace * Jessica Fletcher (Murder, She Wrote) - 698 Candlewood Lane, Cabot Cove, ME * Phileas Fogg - 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, UK * The Funnies (Doug) - 21 Jumbo Street, Bluffington, USA G * Monica Geller, first with Phoebe Buffay, then Rachel Green, finally with Chandler Bing (Friends) - 425 Grove Street, Apartment 20, New York, New York (Chandler and Joey Tribbiani, later Joey and Rachel, lived in Apartment 19; the actual building is at 90 Bedford Street, on the corner of Grove) * Griffin family (Family Guy) - 31 Spooner Street, Quahog, Rhode Island * From the Goon comic book series - Lonely Street, home to the Priest and his hordes of zombies H * The Halliwell Manor (Charmed) - 1329 Prescott Street, San Francisco, California

 (The actual manor is located at 1329 Carroll Ave, Los Angeles, California, in the famous Echo Park neighborhood.) * Tony Hancock (Hancock's Half Hour) - 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam * Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, DSO (novels of John Buchan) - Fosse Manor, Oxfordshire * Harper family (Mama's Family) - 1 Old Decatur Road, Raytown, USA * Hatcher family (Judy Blume's "Fudge" books) - 25 West 68th Street, New York, New York * Doug and Carrie Heffernan; Arthur Spooner (The King of Queens) - 3223 Aberdeen Avenue, Rego Park, New York * Earl and Randy Hickey - Room 231, The Palms Motel, 9005 Lincoln Blvd, Camden, USA * Hank and Peggy Hill (King of the Hill) - 84 Rainey Street, Arlen, TX, 78054 (The zip code is actually for Beeville, TX) * Sherlock Holmes - 221B Baker Street, London, UK * Huxtable family

 (The Cosby Show) - 10 Stigwood Avenue, New York City (Brooklyn) I * Uncle Fred, The Earl of Ickenham (novels of P.

G. Wodehouse) - Ickenham Hall, Ickenham, Hants, UK J *Justice Inc. and the Avenger - No. 1 Bleek Street K * Clark Kent (Superman) - 344 Clinton St., Apt. 3B, Metropolis, USA (later 1938 Sullivan Lane, Metropolis) * Eugene Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 3541 Anchor Way, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Kramden family (The Honeymooners) - 328 1/2 Chauncey Street, Brooklyn, New York L * Lane family (The Patty Duke Show) - 8 Remsen Drive, Brooklyn Heights New York City, New York, USA * Laverne & Shirley - 730 Knapp Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Lawrence family (Gidget) - 803 N.

Dutton Drive, California, USA * Leopold Bloom (Ulysses) - 7 Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland M * Magnum, P.I., Robin's Nest - 11435 18th Avenue, Oahu, HI * Miss Marple - Danemead, High Street, St Mary Mead * Victor Meldrew, 19 Riverbank, UK * Mindy McConnell and Mork (Mork and Mindy) - 1619 Pine Street, Boulder, Colorado * Fibber McGee and Molly (his wife) - 79 Wistful Vista, USA. * Travis McGee - Slip F-18 at Bahia Mar Marina - docking place of houseboat; this was a real address, although it has since been demolished according to Spider Robinson: a photo of him sitting at the base of the dedication plaque to McGee at the slip (as described in Robinson's novel Callahan's Key) may be found on this page ) * Daria Morgendorffer (Daria) - 1111 Glen Oaks Lane, Lawndale USA * Fox Mulder (The X-Files) - 2630 Hegal Place, Apt.

42, Alexandria, Virginia, 23242 * The Munsters - 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, USA. There is however a Mockingbird Lane in South Pasadena, California. N * Nelson family (I Dream of Jeannie) - 1020 Palm Drive, Cocoa Beach, FL * Navidson Family (House of Leaves) - Succoth and Ash Tree Lane * Newman (Seinfeld) - Apartment 5E, 129 West 81st Street, New York, New York O * Stan & Hilda Ogden (Coronation Street) - 13 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Oscar and Felix (The Odd Couple) - 1049 Park Avenue, New York, New York * Owens family (Mr.

Belvedere) - 200 Spring Valley Road, Beaver Falls, PA P * Paddington Bear - 32 Windsor Gardens, London * The Partridge Family - 698 Sycamore Road, San Pueblo, CA * Reginald Iolanthe Perrin (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) - 12 Coleridge Close, Climthorpe, London, UK * Adrianna Pennino (Rocky) - 1818 Tusculum St, Philadelphia, PA 19134-3416 * Petrie family (The Dick Van Dyke Show) - 448 Bonnie Meadow Road, New Rochelle, New York. Their next-door neighbors are Dr. Jerry Helper (a dentist), his wife Millie and their children. * Petrillo family (The Golden Girls) - 6151 Richmond Street, Miami Beach, Florida * Phil's Bar & Grill (Murphy Brown) - 1595 I Street NW, Washington, D.C.

(Usually written as "EYE Street" to differentiate it from 1st Street, listed as "FIRST" on street signs) * Pickle and Lamb families (Cloudstreet) - 1 Cloud Street, West Leederville, Perth, Western Australia * Hercule Poirot - Apt. 56B, Whitehaven Mansions, Sandhurst Square, London W1, UK. * Solar Pons - 71B Praed Street, London, UK * Post family (Mr.

Ed) - 17230 Valley Road, USA * Harry Potter - The cupboard under the Stairs, 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey (later moved to normal bedroom, as Dursley family, above) * Screech Powers (Saved by the Bell) - 88 Edgemont, Palisades, California R * Ricardo family (I Love Lucy) - Apartment 4A (later 3D), 623 East 68th Street, New York, New York * Mary Richards (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) - Apartment D, 119 North Weatherly Avenue, Minneapolis, MN * Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) - 2354 Pacific Coast Highway, California, USA * Rush family (Keep it in the Family) - Highgate Avenue, Highgate S * Fred G. and Lamont Sanford (Sanford and Son) - 9114 S. Central Ave., Watts, Los Angeles, California. * Doc Savage - 86th floor of "the skyscraper" (implicitly the Empire State Building), New York, New York. He also resided in a Fortress of Solitude at the North Pole ...

presumably sharing this space with Superman and Santa Claus! * Dana Scully (The X-Files) - 3170 W. 53 Rd. #35, Annapolis, Maryland * Lynette Scavo and her family (Desperate Housewives) - 4355 Wisteria Lane, Fairview, Eagle State * Seaver family (Growing Pains) - 15 Robin Hood Lane, USA (later specified as Huntington, Long Island, New York) * Jerry Seinfeld - Apartment 5A, 129 West 81st Street, New York, New York (The actual address of that apartment is 757 S. New Hampshire Ave. in Los Angeles, 1 block south of Wilshire Bl.) *Angelica Serralde (Blue Demon Jr., el Legado) - Heriberto Frias 15, Mexico City.

* Sethe (main character of Toni Morrison's Beloved) - 124 Bluestone Road, Cincinnati, OH * Ena Sharples (Coronation Street) - Glad Tidings Mission, 16 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * The Simpsons - 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, USA **15201 Maple Systems Road, Cypress Creek, USA (You Only Move Twice ) * Soprano family (The Sopranos); 633 Stag Trail Road in North Caldwell, New Jersey, USA * SpongeBob SquarePants - 124 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Sabrina Spellman (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch) - 133 Collins Road, in the fictional town of Westbridge, USA * Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 120 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Steadman family (Thirtysomething) - 1710 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Philadelphia, PA * Stephens family (Bewitched) - 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Westport, CT * Harold and Albert Steptoe (Ste

ptoe and Son) - 24 Oil Drum Lane, Shepherd's Bush, UK.

* Stone family (The Donna Reed Show) - 4-3926 Hillsdale *Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum -177A Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village * Sugarbaker Design Firm (Designing Women) - 1521 Sycamore, Atlanta, GA * Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) - 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale, CA * Superman and Lois Lane - 1938 Sulivan Lane, Metropolis, USA (in recent/current comics; 1938 being a tribute to the year of the character's comic book debut) T * Tanner family (ALF) - 167 Hemdale Street, Los Angeles, California * Tanner family (Full House) - 1882 Gerard Street, San Francisco, California * Albert Tatlock (Coronation Street) - 1 Coronation Street, Weatherfield, Greater Manchester, UK * Taylor family (The Andy Griffith Show) - 322 Maple, Mayberry, North Carolina * Taylor family (Home Improvement) - 510 Glenview, Detroit, Michigan * Tenenbaum family (The Royal Tenenbaums) - 11

1 Archer Avenue, New York City, New York * Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants) - 122 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean * Eric Thursley (Faust Eric) - 13 Midden Lane, Pseudopolis, Sto Plains, The Discworld, On top of Great A'tuin, The Univers, Space.

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More Space * Aunt Dahlia, Mrs Travers (Jeeves and Wooster) - 47 Charles Street, Mayfair, London; Brinkley Court, Brinkley-cum-Snodsfield-in-the-Marsh, near Market Snodsbury, Worcs * Tripper, Jack (Three's Company) - 834 Ocean Vista Avenue #201, Santa Monica, California, USA * Trotter family (Only Fools and Horses) - Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, London * Joy and Darnell Turner (My Name Is Earl) - Pimmit Hills Trailer Park, Space C-13, Camden, USA * Jackie and Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) - Flat 48, Bucknall House, Powell Estate, London V * Vimes family (Discworld novels) - Ramkin Manor, Scoone Avenue, Ankh-Morpork W * Wallace and Gromit - 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancs * Walsh family (Beverly Hills 90210) - 933 Hillcrest Drive, Beverly Hills, California * Waluigi (Mario Power Tennis) - 12 Grimace Lane, Mushroom Kingdom *

 Bruce Wayne (Batman) - Wayne Manor, outside Gotham City (exact location unknown) * Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, home and business of Fred and George Weasley - 93 Diagon Alley, London * Wilkerson family ( Malcolm in the Middle ) - 12334 Maple Blvd.

* Lord Peter Wimsey - 110a Piccadilly, London * Charles Emerson Winchester III (') - 16 Briarcliff Lane, Boston. "Yes, yes, Massachusetts." (Though a remark by Colonel Flagg suggests the Winchester family actually lives in suburban Wellesley.) * Sandy Winfield II and Kenny Madison - Surfside 6, Miami Beach address of detective agency set on a houseboat. * Winslow family (Family Matters) - 263 Pinehurst, Chicago, Illinois * Nero Wolfe - 454 West 35th Street, New York, New York ; also described in some of the novels as simply West 35th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues, that location is the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. X * Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (X-Men) - 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center, New York Z Lord Peter Wimsey Quotes - Quotations Book Authors starting with L Quotes by Lord Peter Wimsey 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 murder mysteries.

The novels have a setting contemporary to when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s (or early 1940s if one includes A Presumption of Death). Wimsey is described as a man in early middle age, of at best average height with straw-colored hair and a vaguely foolish face (reputedly his looks were patterned after academic Roy Ridley), though he also possessed considerable athletic ability, especially at cricket. Sayers peppered the Wimsey stories with many locations and details from her own life, with her hero's abundant wealth being in contrast to the penury that led her to try her hand at detective fiction. Wimsey's London home is at 110A Piccadilly, W1, from which he moves upon his marriage to a townhouse on Audley Square, in the heart of Mayfair. The ancestral home of the Wimseys is Bredon Hall, Duke's Denver, Norfolk. The 'original' Denver is a village on the A10 near Downham Market in the west of the county; Duke's Denver (fictional like the dukedom it gives its name to) lies some fifteen miles beyond.

Lord Peter Wimsey | Interesting Curios Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890, and was the second of the three children of Mortimer Wimsey and Honoria Lucasta Delagardie. Early Life Edit Peter led a relatively carefree childhood, and, indeed, was the favourite of his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, rather than her other son, Gerald Christian Wimsey. The relationship with his father, the 15th Earl of Denver, however, was more estranged, with him seeking a fatherly figure in a old poacher who lived on the edge of the family estate. They were, however, both overjoyed when Lady Mary Wimsey was born in 1895. Another confidant in Peter was his uncle on his mother's side, Paul Delagardie, who, in 1907, instructed him on the ways of the world, lessons which he gladly employed in later life. Peter was educated at Eton College and later the Balliol College in Oxford, being accepted in 1909.

Although he was met with no distinction in the former, the latter saw him graduate with a first-class degree in history (in 1912).This era also merited his first degree of fame; he was an outstanding cricketer, and his display in 1911 was remembered years afterwards. The joy inherent here, however, was tempered when his father broke his neck while hunting. As Lord Peter was too young, his brother, Gerald, became the 16th Earl of Denver. After leaving Oxford, Wimsey met and fell in love with Barbara, much to the chagrin of Paul Delagardie. They quickly became engaged. Wimsey's nephew, Lord Saint-George, was born around this time. However, this happy state could not last long, for, in 1914, World War I broke out. Service Edit Wimsey hurried to aid the British Army, but was forced to break off his engagement with Barbara, in case of an injury or death. In his absence, Barbara married another officer in 1916, and the two never met again. Lord Peter joined a Rifle Brigade, and slowly gravitated to the position of Major.

Thanks to his fluency in the German language and his proficiency with codes, he was made an Intelligence Officer, doing sterling work for British Intelligence. He once infiltrated a staff room of a German officer, and became notorious for his use of the Playpen cypher. After the end of his spying service behind enemy lines, however, he became a normal line officer once more. Again, his proficiency in commanding his troops made him extremely popular with the men, and in particular with his Sergeant, Mervyn Bunter. The two became lifelong friends- so much so that they arranged that if they survived the war Bunter would become Wimsey's valet. Tragically, in 1918 Wimsey was wounded by artillery fire near Caudry in France. He had a mental breakdown caused by shell-shock, and was sent home. In recovering at Duke's Denver, he found himself unable to issue orders to servants, associating the act with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given. Bunter, however, became his valet, helping him to get through the breakdown.

They moved to 110A Piccadilly W1, where Wimsey recovered, losing all remnants of the disease in 1920. However, he occasionally had relapses in later life, especially when he caused the death of a criminal. Detective Work Edit Wimsey's first successfully solved crime was that of the recovery of the Affenbury Emeralds in 1921. It was in this case that he met the then Sergeant Charles Parker of Scotland Yard, who became a great friend of the Lord. His detective work was brought to home in 1923, when his brother and sister were charged for murder. However, Lord Peter was able to clear both of them, with the upshot that Lady Mary and Parker fell in love. It was also around this time that Wimsey began to enlist the services of Miss Climpson, who ran an undercover employment agency for women, using the powers of gossip to allow spinsters to find useful information. Throughout the 1920s Wimsey had several relationships with several women, and was therefore the subject of gossip all around Europe.

In particular, he encountered This was curtailed in December 1927, however, when Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly when hunting game in Tanganyika. This was in order to infiltrate a criminal society and break them up- a thing he succeeded doing after two years. In 1929 Wimsey met and fell in love with Harriet Vane, when she was on trial for murder. In classic Wimsey style, he cleared Harriet's name, although Lord Peter's proposal was rejected by her. Nevertheless, he continued to court her, and in 1935 the couple married. They had three children: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (b. 1936), Roger Wimsey (b. 1938) and Paul Wimsey (b.1940). Wimsey wrote two books: one, an essay on pre-fifteenth century books, was called Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula. The other concerned the criminal's methods, and was called The Murderer's Vade-Mecum.

Lord Peter Wimsey | Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing - eBooks | Read eBooks online Biography Background 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 .[3] This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that" (as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to Striding Folly ). The family coat of arms is blazoned as " Sable , 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "As my Whimsy takes me."[4] Early life Lord Peter was the second of the three children of Mortimer Wimsey, 15th poacher living at the edge of the family estate. According to the novels, Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford , graduating with a first -class degree in history.

He was also an outstanding cricketer , whose performance would still be well remembered decades later, leading to the near unmasking of his incognito in Murder Must Advertise . Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford. At this time, Lord Peter was considerably influenced by his maternal uncle Paul Delagardie, who took it upon himself to instruct his nephew in the facts of life as Paul himself understood them – i.e. to conduct various love affairs, often in the more permissive atmosphere of France, and treat his various lovers respectfully but avoid any deep emotional entanglements. To his uncle's disappointment, Peter eventually fell deeply in love with a young woman named Barbara and became engaged to her. When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Army , releasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated. The girl later married another, less principled, officer. Wimsey served on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918, reaching the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade .

He was appointed an Intelligence Officer , and on one occasion he infiltrated the staff room of a German officer.[5] Though not explicitly stated, that feat implies that Wimsey spoke a fluent and unaccented German. As noted in Have His Carcase , he communicated at that time with British Intelligence using the Playfair cipher and became proficient in its use. For reasons never clarified, after the end of his spy mission, Wimsey in the later part of the war moved from Intelligence and resumed the role of a regular line officer. 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 . In particular, while in the army he met Sergeant Mervyn Bunter , who had previously been in service . In 1918, Wimsey was severely wounded by artillery fire near Caudry in France.

He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home. After sharing this experience, which the Dowager Duchess referred to as "a jam", Wimsey and Bunter arranged that if they were both to survive the war, Bunter would become Wimsey's valet . Throughout the books, Bunter takes care to address Wimsey as "My Lord". 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. After the war he was ill for many months, recovering at the family's ancestral home in Duke's Denver, a fictional setting—as is the Dukedom of Denver— about 15 miles (24 km) beyond the real Denver in Norfolk, on the A10 near Downham Market . Wimsey was for a time unable to give servants any orders whatsoever, since his wartime experience made him associate the giving of an order with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given.

Bunter arrived and, with the approval of the Dowager Duchess, took up his post as valet. Bunter moved Wimsey to a London flat at 110A Piccadilly , W1 , while Wimsey recovered. Even much later, however, Wimsey would have relapses—especially when his actions caused a murderer to be hanged. As noted in Whose Body? , on such occasions Bunter would take care of Wimsey and tenderly put him to bed, and they would revert to being "Major Wimsey" and "Sergeant Bunter". Detective work Lord Peter begins his hobby of investigation by recovering The Attenbury Emeralds in 1921. He also becomes good friends with Scotland Yard detective Charles Parker , a sergeant in 1921 who eventually rises to the rank of Commander. Bunter, a man of many talents himself, not least photography, often proves instrumental in Peter's investigations. However, Wimsey is not entirely well. At the end of the investigation in Whose Body? (1923) he hallucinates that he is back in the trenches. He soon recovers his senses and goes on a long holiday.

The next year, he travels (in Clouds of Witness , 1926) to the fictional Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire to assist his older brother Gerald, who has been accused of murdering Captain Denis Cathcart, their sister's fiancé. As Gerald is the Duke of Denver, he is tried by the entire House of Lords, as required by the law at that time, to much scandal and the distress of his wife Helen. Their sister, Lady Mary, also falls under suspicion. Lord Peter clears the Duke and Lady Mary, to whom Parker is attracted. As a result of the slaughter of men in the First World War, there was in the UK a considerable imbalance between the sexes. 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.

As recounted in the short story "The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba", in December 1927 Wimsey fakes his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in During the 1920s, Wimsey has affairs with various women, which are the subject of much gossip in Britain and Europe. This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he meets Harriet Vane and relations with other women become a closed chapter. 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.

The only one of Wimsey's earlier women to appear in person is the artist Marjorie Phelps, who plays an important role in The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club . She has known Wimsey for years and is attracted to him, though it is not explicitly stated whether they were lovers. Wimsey likes her, respects her, and enjoys her company – but that isn't enough. In Strong Poison , she is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realise that he has fallen in love with Harriet. In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane , a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover. He falls in love with her at first sight. 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. Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth. They marry and have a son, named Charles Peter ("Peterkin"), and a daughter, Mary Lucasta.

While on a fishing holiday in Scotland, Wimsey instigates and takes part in the investigation of the murder of an artist, related in Five Red Herrings . Despite the rejection of his marriage proposal, he continues to court Miss Vane. In Have His Carcase , he finds Harriet is not in London, but learns from a reporter that she has discovered a corpse while on a walking holiday on England's south coast. Wimsey is at her hotel the next morning. He not only investigates the death and offers proposals of marriage, but also acts as Harriet's patron and protector from press and police. Despite a prickly relationship, they work together to identify the murderer. Back in London, Wimsey goes undercover as "Death Bredon" at an advertising firm, working as a copywriter ( Murder Must Advertise ). Bredon is framed for murder, leading Charles Parker to "arrest" Bredon for murder in front of numerous witnesses. To distinguish Death Bredon from Lord Peter Wimsey, Parker smuggles Wimsey out of the police station and urges him to get into the papers.

Accordingly Wimsey accompanies "a Royal personage" to a public event, leading the press to carry pictures of both "Bredon" and Wimsey. In 1934 Wimsey in ( The Nine Tailors ) must unravel a 20 year old case of missing jewels; an unknown corpse; a missing World War I soldier believed alive; a murderous escaped convict believed dead and a mysterious code concerning church bells. By 1935 Lord Peter is in continental Europe, acting as an unofficial attaché to the British Foreign Office . Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ). At the end of their investigation, Vane finally accepts Peter's proposal of marriage. The couple marry on 8 October 1935, at St. Cross Church , Holywell Street, Oxford, as depicted in the opening collection of letters and diary entries in Busman's Honeymoon . The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

There they find the body of the previous owner, and spend their honeymoon solving the case, thus having the eponymous "Busman's Honeymoon". Over the next five years, according to Sayers' short stories, the Wimseys have three sons: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (born in October 1936 in the story "The Haunted Policeman"); Roger Wimsey (born 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born 1940). However, according to the wartime publications of The Wimsey Papers, published in The Spectator , the second son was called Paul. It may be presumed that Paul is named after Lord Peter's maternal uncle Paul Delagardie. "Roger" is an ancestral Wimsey name. Sayers told friends orally that Harriet and Peter were to eventually have five children in all. In the final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story "Talboys", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree.

Peter and the accused set off to investigate and, of course, prove Bredon's innocence. Fictional bibliography Incunabulum: Lord Peter has a noted collection of early editions of Dante , including an Aldine edition of The Divine Comedy (Whose Body?) Wimsey is described as having authored numerous books, among them the following fictitious works: Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula Lord Peter (1972; see the article for complete list of stories.) In addition there are The Wimsey Papers , published between Nov. 1939 and Jan. 1940 in The Spectator Magazine—a series of mock letters by members of the Wimsey family, being in effect fictionalised commentaries on life in England at the inception of the war. Unpublished work Various Books about Lord Peter by other authors Ask a Policeman (1934), a collaborative novel by members of The Detection Club , wherein several authors 'exchanged' detectives. The Lord Peter Wimsey sequence was penned by Anthony Berkeley . The Wimsey Family (1977) by C. W.

Scott-Giles ISBN 0-06-013998-6 Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook (1981) by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins ISBN 0-89919-032-4 Thrones, Dominations (1998) completed by Jill Paton Walsh The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion (2002) by Stephan P. Clarke ISBN 0-89296-850-8 published by The Dorothy L. Sayers Society. Conundrums for the Long Week-End : England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey (2000) by Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis ISBN 0-87338-665-5 A Presumption of Death , (2002) (novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers) The Attenbury Emeralds (September 2010) by Jill Paton Walsh As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family ; and Laurie R.

King 's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel A Letter of Mary . See also Eric Whelpton References ^ The name Death is usually pronounced , but in Murder Must Advertise Lord Peter (investigating undercover under the name Death Bredon) says "It's spelt Death. Pronounce it any way you like. Most of the people who are plagued with it make it rhyme with teeth, but personally I think it sounds more picturesque when rhymed with breath." ^ ~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Lord_Peter_Wimsey.html

Question: Which fictional detective lived at 110A Piccadilly, W1?
Answer: Lord Peter Wimsey