Lord Peter is the younger brother of the Duke of Denver, the richest peer in the United Kingdom. The Wimsey stories take place between 19, and (a bit unusually for a mystery series) the characters age in real time: Lord Peter is thirty-two in Whose Body? and forty-six in Busman's Honeymoon. A series of "letters written by various members of the Wimsey family" and generally referred to as The Wimsey Papers appeared in the Spectator magazine between November 1939 and January 1940 these have not yet been anthologized, though various excerpts from them appear in the Jill Paton Walsh novels. Three unfinished novels were completed by novelist Jill Paton Walsh, and were published as Thrones, Dominations in 1998, A Presumption of Death in 2002, and The Attenbury Emeralds in 2010. Scott-Giles, of the Wimsey family was printed privately and finally published in 1977 under Scott-Giles's name and the title, The Wimsey Family, with Scott-Giles's illustrations. A collection of mock-historical studies by Sayers and various friends, notably including professional herald C.W. All the short stories were subsequently anthologized in the compendium Lord Peter (1972). Three further short stories, "Striding Folly," "The Haunted Policeman," and "Talboys", were collected posthumously in the anthology Striding Folly in 1971.
"The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach"."The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head"."The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste"."The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran"."The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention"."The Unprincipled Affair of the Practical Joker"."The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag"."The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will"."The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question"."The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers".Lord Peter Views the Body (1928 containing 15 stories):.There are, further, three collections of short stories: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928).
Though ostensibly mystery novels, modern readers may see them as more like deconstructions of, parodies of, and occasionally paeans to British culture in the Interbellum, that happen to be about murder. Sayers, with three sequels by Jill Paton Walsh. The hero of eleven books, a play, and a number of short stories, by Dorothy L.
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