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  Lord Peter Wimsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Among Lord Peter's hobbies, apart from criminology, is collecting incunabula, and he is an expert on matters of food (especially wine) and male fashion, as well as on classical music.
Lord Peter Wimsey is played by Ian Carmichael during the seventies series of five novels and by Edward Petherbridge in the later series of three, in which Harriet Vane is played by Harriet Walter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey   (838 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peter was one of the three Apostles (with James and John) who were with Christ on certain special occasions the raising of the daughter of Jairus from the dead (Mark 5:37; Luke 8:51); the Transfiguration of Christ (Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:1; Luke 9:28), the Agony in the Garden of Gethsemani (Matthew 26:37; Mark 14:33).
Peter returned occasionally to the original Christian Church of Jerusalem, the guidance of which was entrusted to St. James, the relative of Jesus, after the departure of the Prince of the Apostles (A.D. The last mention of St. Peter in the Acts (15:1-29; cf.
Peter's residence and death in Rome are established beyond contention as historical facts by a series of distinct testimonies extending from the end of the first to the end of the second centuries, and issuing from several lands.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11744a.htm   (7872 words)

  
 Lord Peter Wimsey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Peter was educated at (A public school for boys founded in 1440; located in Berkshire) Eton College and (Click link for more info and facts about Balliol College, Oxford) Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a " (A first-class honours degree in two subjects) double first" in history.
Among Lord Peter's hobbies, apart from criminology, is collecting (Click link for more info and facts about incunabula) incunabula, and he is an expert on matters of food (especially wine) and male fashion, as well as on classical music.
Lord Peter Wimsey is played by (Click link for more info and facts about Ian Carmichael) Ian Carmichael during the seventies series of five novels and by (Click link for more info and facts about Edward Petherbridge) Edward Petherbridge in the later series of three, in which Harriet Vane is played by Harriet Walter.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/lord_peter_wimsey.htm   (1103 words)

  
 Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lord Peter Wimsey Stories
Peter is referred to at the beginning of the story as being 37, and having died "the previous December" - presumably 1928.
Peter smells something fishy and decides to investigate, sending his friend Miss Climpson - a spinster who does covert investigating on Peter's behalf - to the town in question to find some facts about the woman, her nurse, and the murder of one of the housekeepers who had worked there at the time.
Peter is enlisted to investigate exactly how long he had been dead, and finds that not everything about the body is as it at first seemed, and that a variety of people had motives for rigging the circumstances of the General's death.
www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/mystery/sayers.html   (4532 words)

  
 An Interview With Aardman's Peter Lord
As an animator, director and co-founder of Aardman Animations, Peter Lord has established himself as one of today's premier talents in stop-motion, or, as the Brits call it, "model" animation.
Lord's latest short film, Wat's Pig, is Aardman's sixth Oscar nomination, and Lord's second Oscar nomination as a director.
Peter Lord: For the financial, yes, we have got that.
www.awn.com /mag/issue2.2/articles/jacksonlord2.2.html   (3436 words)

  
 Lord Peter Wimsey - Radio Broadcasts with Ian Carmichael
Lord Peter investigates the connection between the discovery of a corpse in a bath, and the disappearance of financier Sir Reuben Levy.
The case appears open and shut, except to Lord Peter who is convinced of her innocence.
Finally married, Lord Peter and Harriet head off for their honeymoon, but in this Dorothy L. Sayers last "Lord Peter" novel (excluding "Thrones, Dominations" the fragment completed by Jill Paton Walsh) you can guess that a corpse is not going to be far away.
www.geocities.com /gregorym101/bbcwimsey.html   (613 words)

  
 Catholic Online
Peter was a native of Bethsaida, near Lake Tiberias, the son of John, and worked, like his brother St. Andrew, as a fisherman on Lake Genesareth.
Peter was always listed as the first of the Apostles in all of the New Testament accounts and was a member of the inner circle of Jesus, with James and John.
According to rich tradition, Peter was crucified on the Vatican Hill upside down because he declared himself unworthy to die in the same manner as the Lord.
www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=5358   (787 words)

  
 Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
Meredith's sanity and health were strained by the series of events, and she withdrew from life, devoting all of her time to her son.
Peter was placed in the state orphanage, where he continued to set himself apart from the other kids.
In that story, Peter Quill was born in 1962, his mother was killed in 1973, began training with NASA in 1987, and he became Star-Lord in 1990.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/starlor1.htm   (3967 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Lord Peter : The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For the most part, most of my favorite Lord Peter short stories fall into this group, with the exception of "The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention", an enormous (and to me, tedious) novella wherein the will of a recently deceased old reprobate was deliberately designed to create bad blood between his sons.
Lord Peter himself, and most of the other characters are self-efacingly described in a very endearing way.
Lord Peter's eldest does not disappoint in his spirit or his intelligence, and Peter and Harriet fulfill all expectations as they lovingly handle their children.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060913800?v=glance   (1416 words)

  
 Official Lord of the Rings Return of the King Tickets New Movies LOTR Movie Site: Wallpaper Two Towers Pictures Trailer ...
This is the Official Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring, Return of the King, Two Towers web site.
Lord of the Rings is the Official movie site where you can find previews, and catch a glimpse into the making of the movie.
Tolkien Ìs work was to have a profound effect on generations of readers, defining for many the archetypal struggle between good and evil, and was voted in many world-wide polls as the "Book of the Century".
www.lordoftherings.net   (557 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lord Peter Wimsey - Clouds of Witness (1973): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Peter Wimsey (Ian Carmichael) must find the evidence to clear his older brother, Gerald, the Duke of Denver (David Langton) from the charge of murder.
Lord Peter Wimsey's brother Gerald, the Duke of Denver, has got himself into "a spot of bother." He is accused of killing Lady Mary Wimsey's fiance, a card cheat named Cathcart.
Lord Peter returns just in the nick of time to give evidence at the trial of his brother in the House of Lords.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005RIWV?v=glance   (1915 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Lord Peter Views the Body (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fans of the Lord Peter Wimsey series (myself among them) will certainly enjoy them, and have fun noting that Sayers later expanded some of these short story ideas into more substantial work, but newcomers will likely be unimpressed.
Lord Peter's hosts are on the stuffy (and in one instance, spiteful) side, and gossipy, which gives us the background on the local rich old reprobate whose funeral is on the morrow.
Throughout their conversation and the meal, Lord Peter notices the footsteps of the doctor's neighbours on the floor overhead - which end in murder.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450017095   (1552 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For those of you who haven't been introduced, Lord Peter Wimsey is a moneyed, aristocratic, amateur sleuth with a heart of gold.
Lord Peter is a complete collection Dorothy L. Sayers' short stories featuring Lord Peter.
Lord Peter is a perfect introduction to a wonderful series and author.
www.epinions.com /book-review-4FBF-636E90-388E265C-bd3   (301 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Peter Melchett: Lord of the Greens
It is somewhat refreshing then that, whatever one's view of GM foods, Peter Mond, fourth Baron Melchett, should have been a defendant in a trial on a point of principle.
Lord Melchett was then courted by the Labour Party.
Peter Melchett is also vegetarian and refuses to eat fish.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_934000/934110.stm   (623 words)

  
 The Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers: Attorney General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Goldsmith QC was appointed on 11 June 2001 as Her Majesty’s Attorney General.
Peter Goldsmith was born and brought up in Liverpool.
Lord Goldsmith is married with four children and lives in London.
www.lslo.gov.uk /goldsmith.htm   (347 words)

  
 -Lord Peter's Page-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Peter was very familiar with his friend's ambitions to dandyism, and knew how his clothes looked and fit were of paramount importance to him.
She learned Geordie and Lord Peter were to eat with Lady Beaumont and her daughter in a private parlor, and guessed she was expected to eat in the taproom.
Lord Peter and Geordie were still with the Beaumonts; she heard their laughter as she passed by the parlor.
www.awe-struck.net /PREVIEWS/LPPAGEprv.html   (12727 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lord Peter Wimsey - Murder Must Advertise (1973): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Peter goes undercover as Death Breedon to take a job as a copywriter for Pym's Advertising Agency to help Mr.
I also enjoyed Peter's sparkling sister Lady Mary and his snobby sister in law the Duchess of Denver The mystery itself is well told and comes to a satisfying conclusion.
In Murder Must Advertise Lord Peter spends some time undercover in an advertising agency which is apparently being used in a cocaine smuggling operation.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007E1WX?v=glance   (2048 words)

  
 The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
"Lord Peter Wimsey and his circle move across the pages of the novels by Dorothy L Sayers in a snowstorm of references to the times he lived in and to the treasure house of learning he shared with his author.
As common knowledge of the world before WWII sinks out of memory, and as Lord Peter lives on and has more and more numerous admirers, a guide is more necessary than ever.
With this hugely learned and amusing companion, Lord Peter's fans will be able to track his quicksilver thoughts and richly complex context as nimbly as he himself could track and crack crimes.
www.sayers.org.uk /press/lpwc.html   (490 words)

  
 Lord Peter Wimsey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She wrote of Lord Peter Death Breadon Wimsey, his eccentric family, Bunter who was his Gentleman's Gentleman, and other assorted characters who made up this world; I fell in love with this ever-so-slightly comical slice of an English society that is no more and might never really have been...
Lord Peter is the central character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers that I mentioned just now.
Lord Peter's 'fictional' life starts in 1890 as was noted in Murder Must Advertise.
www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_wimsey_omni_05_03.html   (1006 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Lord Peter Views the Body   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Lord Peter Views the Body is a collection of the early adventures of Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's upper-class detective.
One wonders whether Dorothy Sayers considered naming her famous detective Lord Peter WHIMSY, for, clearly, whimsy is very much a part of her loving attitude toward Wimsey.
Carmichael, as the movie ads say, IS Peter Wimsey---and his voice is flexible enough to be all the other characters as well.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450017095   (1119 words)

  
 MediaWest*Con 18: Lord Peter Wimsey panel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Peter's responsibility is not to be the parasitic aristocrat; Harriet's responsibility is to keep writing because of her talent.
There's a two-scene cameo involving Lord Peter in one of King's novels, A Letter from Mary, set shortly after World War I, and she gets the characterization dead-on.
The author made a number of inaccurate statements, and part of the basis of her contention that Sayers was in love with Peter was that he went from five-foot-nine in Clouds of Witness to over six feet in Busman's Honeymoon.
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 Lord Peter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lord Peter is a collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
First published in 1972 (ISBN 0-380-01694-X), it includes all the short stories about Lord Peter written by Dorothy L. Sayers, most of which were published elsewhere soon after they were written, and some related writings.
Coda: "Sayers, Lord Peter and God", by Carolyn Heilbrun
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Peter   (158 words)

  
 The Main Thing - Home Page
Welcome to Peter Lord's new home on the world wide web.
While it is true that it is an evolution of sorts, it's primary intent and purpose is to provide a personal insite into this man of God and shed a bit of light on his work and mission.
There's a gallery of sorts containing a few shots of Peter at various churches throughout the land.
www.the-main-thing.org   (238 words)

  
 The Baldwin Project: Popular Tales from the Norse by George Webbe Dasent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Then Peter went again into the kitchen, and said he was come with a little present for the King, if he would be pleased to take it.
He wished now, once for all, to know where this Lord Peter lived, and asked and asked about this thing and that, but the lad said he daren't say, for his master's sake, who had strictly forbidden him to tell.
But Peter begged him to stay to supper, and the King stayed, but he was sour and surly the whole time.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=dasent&book=norse&story=lord   (2005 words)

  
 Henry Peter, Lord Brougham. 1778-1868. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The title given by Lord Brougham to a book published in 1830.
Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror.—Thomas Campbell: Lives of the Chancellors, vol.
Lord St. Leonards attributes this phrase to Sir Charles Wetherell, who used it on the occasion referred to by Lord Campbell.
www.bartleby.com /100/354.html   (232 words)

  
 .:: LORD PETER WIMSEY ::.
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Lord Peter is called upon to investigate the death of an aged member of the Bellona Club, General Fentiman.
Help is at hand when Lord Peter and his manservant Bunter are stranded in the village and are drawn into the intriguing incidents.
The moment the story appears in the papers, Harriet's old friend Lord Peter is on the scene to lend his powers of detection.
www.britishdrama.org.uk /wimsey.html   (1874 words)

  
 Lord Peter Wimsey on Television with Ian Carmichael
Lord Peter Wimsey on Television with Ian Carmichael
The well remembered Seventies series has now had a full VHS release, and the stories are now being released on DVD, consult Acorn Media's website for the most up to date information on what is available in your region.
Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Views the Body, Whose Body
www.geocities.com /gregorym101/bbcwimsey_tv_car.html   (152 words)

  
 Review A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - Computer Toaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Lord Peter and Harriet are talking in banalities!
The plot is o'k but the book has nothing to do with Sayers or Lord Peter.
computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_0312291000   (288 words)

  
 CNN.com - ABC in no rush to fill Jennings' seat - Aug 9, 2005
An ABC News spokesman stressed that it would not name a new anchor for the broadcast for an indeterminate amount of time.
William Lord, a former "World News Tonight" executive producer who teaches at Boston University, said Jennings will be difficult to replace.
"Peter was different, and that was ultimately to our benefit.
www.cnn.com /2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/09/jennings.replacement.reut/index.html   (837 words)

  
 Moviefone: Lord Peter Wimsey Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Synopsis: Ian Carmichael essayed the title role in Lord Peter Wimsey, an on-and-off British TV series based on the seriocomic mystery novels by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Some of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels were made into two very successful...
There was a 1935 British movie of The Silent Passenger in which Lord Peter...
movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1222457   (258 words)

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