22 August 2009

W is for Lord Peter Wimsey


Lord Peter Wimsey is a British gentleman detective in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1920s - 1930s (which is when they were written), the books include an element of satire of the British class system which was prevalent at the time. In the adjacent image he is being portrayed by Ian Carmichael in a TV series from the 1970s.

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