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Here his real name is given as 'Lord Peter'. Langdale Pike also appears in the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective video game series (1991–1993). In Peter Ling's 1994 radio play of "The Three Gables" for the 1989–1998 BBC Radio series, [40] Pike's real name is said to be Clarence Gable. Here he is also an old school-friend of Holmes's and ...
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.
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 ...
The series was a co-production with the PBS network station WGBH Boston, which broadcast it under the title Lord Peter Wimsey as part of its Mystery! strand. Walter believed that the change of name perhaps reflected a nervousness about hanging a series on a female character, and on a writer whose name was not well known in the United States ...
Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. In the United States the novel was first published in 1927 under the title Clouds of Witnesses. [2] [3] It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter.
The Late Scholar is the fourth and final Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton Walsh.Featuring characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers, it was written with the co-operation and approval of Sayers' estate.
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).
In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death. In 2010, she published a third, The Attenbury Emeralds . [ 16 ] Her last addition to the series, The Late Scholar , was published 5 December 2013 in the UK, and 14 January 2014 in North America.