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The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.The story is set in the Lincolnshire Fens, and revolves around a group of bell-ringers at the local parish church.
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.. The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations.
Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by Jill Paton Walsh. Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover (Strong Poison). The detective falls in love with her and proposes ...
Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey: In the Teeth of the Evidence, Absolutely Elsewhere Featuring Montague Egg: A Shot at Goal, Dirt Cheap, Bitter Almonds, False Weight, The Professor's Manuscript Featuring neither: The Milk-Bottles, Dilemma, An Arrow o'er the House, Scrawns, Nebuchadnezzar, The Inspiration of Mr. Budd, Blood Sacrifice, Suspicion, The ...
Lady Mary, the younger sister of the 16th Duke, and of Lord Peter, leans strongly to the political left. At one time she planned to elope with a radical left agitator, and though this did not come about she did scandalise Helen by marrying a policeman of working-class origins. Lord Peter Wimsey is called "Lord" as he is the younger son of a duke.
Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson (Alexandra Katharine Climpson in Unnatural Death; also called "Kitty") is a minor character in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. She appears in two novels: Unnatural Death (1927) and Strong Poison (1930), and is mentioned in Gaudy Night (1935) and Busman's Honeymoon (1937).
Lord Peter Wimsey – Aristocratic amateur detective in his mid-forties. The younger son of a duke, his wealth comes largely from property which he manages with intelligence and responsibility. Lady Peter Wimsey (née Harriet Vane) – Successful detective novelist in her early thirties, newly married to Lord Peter after a stormy courtship. Was ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Print (hardback & paperback) ISBN: 0-312-14670-1: ... The story features a cameo by Lord Peter Wimsey.