Lord Peter Wimsey
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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves
1926 Daimler Double-Six Saloon
Illuminated incipit of the Divine Comedy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy of the 1481 edition
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
Lord Peter Wimsey
…Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman…
St Mary's Church in Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire, where Sayers's father was rector during her childhood
Somerville College
Sayers's second book of verse, 1918
Second of Sayers's two 1930 novels