Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Paton Walsh in 2011
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. He is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; by his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and, in a few books, by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.
Ian Carmichael as Wimsey in 1972
A Daimler double-six V12 50hp Corsica drophead coupé body designed by Reid Railton (1931)
A Daimler double-six V12 50hp four-door saloon made for Anna Neagle and given to her by her husband
Incunabulum: Lord Peter has a noted collection of early editions of Dante, including an Aldine edition of The Divine Comedy (Whose Body?)