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. He is the main character in those works, in which he solves mysteries — usually murder mysteries. The tales all take place in a setting contemporary to when they were written, from the 1920s to the 1940s. Lord Peter's London address is 110A Piccadilly. He is described as a man in early middle age, of average height with a vaguely foolish face (reputedly his looks were patterned after academic Roy Ridley).

Bibliography

Novels

with year of first publication

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• Whose Body?, 1923
• Clouds of Witness, 1926 (Carmichael tv movie)
• Unnatural Death, 1927
• The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928 (Carmichael tv movie)
• Strong Poison, 1931 (Petherbridge tv movie)
• The Five Red Herrings, 1931 (Carmichael tv movie)
• Have His Carcase, 1932 (Petherbridge tv movie)
• Murder Must Advertise, 1933 (Carmichael tv movie)
• The Nine Tailors, 1934 (Carmichael tv movie)
• Gaudy Night, 1935 (Petherbridge tv movie)
• Busman's Honeymoon, 1937 (Montgomery film)
• Thrones, Dominations, 1998 (not finished by Sayers -- completed by Jill Paton Walsh)
• A Presumption of Death, 2002 (written by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers)

Short story collections

• Lord Peter Views the Body, 1928
• Hangman's Holiday, 1933 (also contains non-Wimsey stories)
• In the Teeth of the Evidence, 1939 (also contains non-Wimsey stories)
• Lord Peter, 1972