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	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.
		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[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Lord_Peter_Wimsey.html (542 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)

	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 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.
		Wimsey is invited to investigate, and becomes embroiled in an attempt to recover an emerald necklace stolen back in 1914, the church's bells being touted as clues to the mystery.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/mystery/sayers.html (4532 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in 1890 and aging in real-time, Wimsey is described as having at best average height with straw-colored hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face (reputedly his looks were patterned after academic Roy Ridley).
		Lord Peter is the second child of Mortimer, 15th Duke of Denver, and Honoria Lucasta, who lives on throughout the novels as the Dowager Duchess.
		The Wimseys have three children: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey (born in October 1936 in the story "The Haunted Policeman" and featured in the 1942 story "Talboys"); Roger Wimsey (born 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born 1940).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey (1627 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L. Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the younger brother of the 16th Duke of Denver.
		Lord Peter attends a murder trial where the accused is Harriet Vane, a writer of detective fiction, charged with murdering her former lover.
		If Lord Peter cannot prove she is innocent she will hang - what makes it more of a problem is that he has fallen in love with her.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2715365 (1927 words)

	::Strand Magazine::
		She told enquirers during World War II that Wimsey was engaged in Intelligence work, and she told her friends Muriel St. Clare Byrne and Barbara Reynolds that his nephew, Viscount St. George, had been killed in the Battle of Britain.
		Lord Peter Wimsey is still alive and well in the imaginations of his fans.
		To celebrate the 100th birthday of Lord Peter on November 24th, 1990, a portrait of a 21-year-old Wimsey was presented to Balliol College.
	www.strandmag.com /wimsey.htm (2319 words)

	The Career of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey: Masculinity, Myth and Modernity, Dorothy L Sayers, 045000242X, ...
		Wimsey, on the other hand, promises the woman, a vital witness, that he will protect her from her husband's revenge.
		Wimsey's tripartite persona consists of a pompous aristocrat who tells a drug baron of the evil propensities of his second mask, Death Bredon; these two are haunted by a spectral, death-dealing harlequin.
		Sayers takes Wimsey from an exploration of masculinity's nightmares in the aftermath of WW1, to a mythical reincarnation of the knight errant doing good deeds, to a sense that the quest can be fulfilled, the wasteland of modernity can be restored, not once and for all, but in the continued processes of sacramental work.
	www.crimetime.co.uk /features/dorothysayers2.php (2028 words)

	Action TV Online - Lord Peter Wimsey episode guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Her detective, however, Lord Peter Wimsey, he of the eyeglass, primrose silk pyjamas and collection of Sevres vases, has lived on in the public mind.
		Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957) wrote thirteen Peter Wimsey novels, of which The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club (182) was the fourth, Her cousin and Oxford contemporary Gerald Sayers recalls: "She was always interested in crime - we often dined together and discussed the latest `juicy murder'.
		Lord Peter was her idea of the perfect man, but in 1937, when he had proved a money-spinner, she `killed him off' and turned to her first love, religious poetry and plays".
	www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/lordpeterwim.htm (6221 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness [2 Discs] \| DVDs \| MTV Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Wimsey (Ian Carmichael) returns from a tour of Europe to learn that Capt. Dennis Cathcart (Anthony Ainley), who was engaged to marry Peter's sister Lady Mary Wimsey (Rachel Herbert), was murdered while fleeing the grounds of Riddlesdale, the Wimsey family's estate, in the middle of the night.
		Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver (David Langton), is considered the prime suspect in the crime by the police, but Lord Wimsey is convinced there's more to the case than what's on the surface, and the deeper he digs, the more certain he becomes that his brother is not the murderer...
		Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds Of Witness was produced by the BBC, and was first aired in the United States on the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theatre.
	www.mtv.com /movies/dvd/19308/dvdmain.jhtml (535 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Murder Must Advertise (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery): Books: Dorothy L. Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Peter, as aristocratic as his title would imply, is adventurous and imaginative, a man of action and intelligence who does not hesitate to get down and dirty if necessary (though he'd prefer not "too" dirty).
		Lord Peter Wimsey is one of the greatest of all fictional detectives and 'Murder Must Advertise' presents us with one of his most intriguing mysteries.
		Lord Peter is called in to investigate the death of copywriter Victor Dean.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Murder-Advertise-Peter-Wimsey-Mystery/dp/045000242X (1329 words)

	Amazon.com: Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Paperback)): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, D.S.O., is the brother of Gerald, the 16th Duke of Denver.
		Lord Peter is described as 5' 9", not conventionally good looking, with a long narrow face, a long narrow chin, receding forehead, tow-haired and grey eyed, with long square, muscular fingers.
		Lord Peter is off on a covert mission, but ever-present in Harriet's thoughts as she tries to solve the murder of a Land Girl.
	www.amazon.com /Lord-Peter-Complete-Mysteries-Paperback/dp/0061043613 (2252 words)

	Amazon.com: Lord Peter Wimsey - Clouds of Witness: DVD: Ian Carmichael,Toke Townley,Gerald Cowan,John Bryans,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Peter's brother Gerald is accused of murdering a man he had just argued with that evening and steadfastly refuses to say where he was at the time of the killing, although he was found bending over the body and his own gun was the means of death.
		Lord Peter (Ian Carmichael) returns from Paris after reading that his older brother the Duke of Denver (David Langton) practically accused of murdering Capt. Dennis Cathcart (Anthony Ainley) the soon to be husband of Lady Mary Wimsey (Rachel Herbert), Peters sister.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /Lord-Peter-Wimsey-Clouds-Witness/dp/B00005RIWV (2331 words)

	.:: LORD PETER WIMSEY ::.
		One Wimsey plans to escape in the early hours of the morning until she finds a body in the garden, and her brother, the Duke of Denver, bent over it.
		Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club Lord Peter is called upon to investigate the death of an aged member of the Bellona Club, General Fentiman.
		Wimsey attends the trial and becomes beguiled but eh writer, He also becomes convinced of her innocence of the crime.
	www.britishdrama.org.uk /wimsey.html (1874 words)

	The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"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: Clouds of Witness DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Wimsey's future brother-in-law is murdered during a family retreat at Riddlesdale Lodge.
		His brother Gerald Wimsey, the Duke of Denver, is charged with the crime.
		Lord Wimsey joins the investigation, uncovering a mysterious letter from Egypt, a grieving fiancie with suitcase in hand, and a bullet designed for one very special Wimsey.
	consumer-news.com /aetv/Lord-Peter-Wimsey.htm (138 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey
		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.
		Later, when a mutilated corpse is found in the nearby cemetery, Wimsey turns sleuth when it come to light that the murder may well have something to do with the jewels that were stolen two decades earlier.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_wimsey_omni_05_03.html (1006 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers
		In the beginning the young protagonist is a carefree war hero, whose character still is defined by the intellectual style of the Edwardian age.
		When Lord Peter is impulsive, Parker has cautious and solid character.
		Wimsey developed gradually into a man of conscience and moral responsibility, but humor prevailed throughout the novel series.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dlsayers.htm (1500 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions about the Lord Peter Wimsey Mailing List: Dorothy L. Sayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As well as creating the famous fictional detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers was a playwright, essayist, Christian scholar, and one of the first women to receive a degree from Oxford University.
		In addition to the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, Dorothy L. Sayers was a prolific playwright, theologian, and translator.
		Lord Peter Wimsey himself is a veteran of this war, and has periodic bouts with shell-shock (what we now call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).
	lordpeter.org /sayers (290 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wimsey has to sift through twisting alibis and train schedules to try to ferret out the guilty party.
		Ian Charmichael continues his marvelously mannered performance as Wimsey, with the stalwart assistance of Glyn Houston as the ever-faithful gentleman’s gentleman, Bunter, who despite his very proper manner is a sure hand at getting information from maids and servants.
		The dialogue is clear for the most part, but as with the other entries suffers from time to time from poorly miked areas, where the dialogue is a bit difficult to hear.
	www.classicsondvd.com /fivered.htm (357 words)

	MediaWestCon 18: Lord Peter Wimsey panel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)*
		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.
	members.aol.com /gnomones/thrones.html (2038 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey (1987) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plot Summary: Lord Peter Wimsey is struck all of a heap by Harriet Vane, a murder-mystery novelist who's on trial for poisoning her lover with arsenic...
		Lord Peter Wimsey: And thirdly, find out if any bottle or paper that might have contained arsenic was picked up in that district.
		I thought Edward Petherbridge made a convincing and lovable Wimsey, and Harriet Walter was cool and independent as Harriet Vane.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0092396 (457 words)

	Amazon.de: Lord Peter Wimsey - Have His Carcase [UK IMPORT]: DVD: Edward Petherbridge,Harriet Walter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the opening scenes we notice that Harriet is on trial for life accused of murdering her ex boyfriend.
		Everyone is convinced that she did it except Lord Peter Wimsey.
		As with all Dorothy Sayers mysteries the harder Peter whimsy fought to prove Harry its innocence, the tighter than use got around her neck.
	www.amazon.de /Lord-Peter-Wimsey-Have-Carcase/dp/B000085RNF (1077 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey Novels quiz -- free game
		There are no prizes for recalling the surname of Lord Peter's valet and faithful companion.
		At the start of the fourth Wimsey novel "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club", old Fentiman is found dead in an armchair.
		Lord Peter Wimsey has two very unusual middle names.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=147416 (413 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)

	Lord Peter Wimsey (a Titles and Air Dates Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lord Peter Wimsey (a Titles and Air Dates Guide)
		Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey [ 2 ]
		Any sales or other uses of this document are expressly forbidden, without the specific consent of the author(s).
	www.epguides.com /LordPeterWimsey (485 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions about the Lord Peter Wimsey Mailing List
		The Lord Peter Wimsey Mailing List (LordPeter) was created in September 1998.
		No one may take Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, or Mervyn Bunter as a nom.
		DorothyLSayers: For discussion of Sayers's non-Lord Peter works, including her religious writings and essays.
	lordpeter.org (1959 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Clouds of Witness wird Wimseys Bruder Gerald beschuldigt, den Tod von Lady Marys Verlobtem Cathcart herbeigeführt zu haben.
		Als Nachfolger engagiert Agenturleiter Pym Wimsey, der sich als 'De'ath Bredon' (seine weiteren Vornamen) ausgibt, was zu einigem Stirnrunzeln führt.
		Wimsey kommt auf die schlaue Idee, Bredon Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen.
	www.mediagems.de.cob-web.org:8888 /01filmtv/wimsey.html (796 words)

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