"whose sketches always ended with the phrase ""Run for it Dudley"" (or Morry as appropriate). One recording, from October 1952, survives in the BBC Sound Archive. The Grosvenor character was revived for a later radio series ""We're in Business"". Another notable radio role was as Mervyn Bunter in Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories. He was for 29 years a regular contestant on the panel game ""Just A Minute"", becoming much-loved for his dry, acid wit. He was the voice of The Book in the original radio series of Douglas Adams' ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"". The creators had"
"Harriet Vane Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957). Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover (""Strong Poison""). The detective falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal. In ""Have His Carcase"", she collaborates with Wimsey to solve a murder but still finds him to be overbearing and superficial. She eventually"
"took up his post as valet. Bunter moved Wimsey to a London flat at 110A Piccadilly, W1, while Wimsey recovered. Even much later, however, Wimsey would have relapses—especially when his actions caused a murderer to be hanged. As noted in ""Whose Body?"", on such occasions Bunter would take care of Wimsey and tenderly put him to bed, and they would revert to being ""Major Wimsey"" and ""Sergeant Bunter"". Lord Peter begins his hobby of investigation by recovering ""The Attenbury Emeralds"" in 1921. At the beginning of ""Whose Body?"" there appears the unpleasant Inspector Sugg, who is extremely hostile to Wimsey"
"Clouds of Witness Clouds of Witness is a 1926 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It was adapted for television in 1972, as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver, has taken a shooting lodge at Riddlesdale in Yorkshire. At 3 o'clock one morning, Captain Denis Cathcart, the fiancé of Wimsey's sister Lady Mary, is found shot dead just outside the conservatory. Mary, trying to leave the house at 3 am for some unexplained reason, finds Denver kneeling over Cathcart's"
"Jeeves Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as just Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. First appearing in print in 1915, Jeeves continued to feature in Wodehouse's work until his last completed novel ""Aunts Aren't Gentlemen"" in 1974, a span of 60 years. Both the name ""Jeeves"" and the character of Jeeves have come to be thought of as the quintessential name and nature of a valet or butler, inspiring many"
"(US: ""The Haunted Honeymoon""), with Robert Montgomery as Peter Wimsey. However, the film bore little resemblance to Sayers' writing, and she refused to even see it. Vane was played by Harriet Walter in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of ""Strong Poison"", ""Have his Carcase"" and ""Gaudy Night"" and by Emily Richard in the 1988 stage adaptation of ""Busman's Honeymoon"" at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. In a 2005 BBC audio production of Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane was played by Joanna David. Harriet Vane Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy"
"valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of"
"Bertie's valet, calling himself Meadowes, and inadvertently becomes temporarily engaged to Queenie Silversmith. He also appears in ""Jeeves and the Greasy Bird"", in which he and Bertie discuss the theatrical agent, Jas Waterbury. He collaborates with Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps to write an article titled ""Some Little-Known Cocktails"" for ""Wee Tots"". Ultimately, he plans to go to Hollywood. Catsmeat is featured in: Catsmeat is mentioned in: Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright Claude Cattermole ""Catsmeat"" Potter-Pirbright is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves and Drones Club stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a longtime school friend of Jeeves's master Bertie Wooster and"
"on 25 December 1986 and ""Whose Body"" on 26 December 1987. With year of first publication In addition there are As a footnote, Lord Peter Wimsey has also been included by the science fiction writer Philip José Farmer as a member of the Wold Newton family; and Laurie R. King's detective character Mary Russell meets up with Lord Peter at a party in the novel ""A Letter of Mary"". Lord Peter Wimsey 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"
"preceded by adaptations of ""Whose Body?"", ""Strong Poison"", and ""Gaudy Night"" (all adapted by Frances Limoncelli and produced at Lifeline Theatre). Busman's Honeymoon Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it"
"Dorothy L. Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers (; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. Sayers, an only child,"
"Charles Parker (detective) Sergeant/Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles ""Parker Bird"" Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and later becomes Lord Peter's brother-in-law. He is first introduced in ""Whose Body?"" as a Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard. In the next book, ""Clouds of Witness"", he is summoned to assist the local police in the North Riding of Yorkshire who are investigating the death of Captain Dennis Cathcart, the fiancé of Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, apparently at the hands of Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver. Parker first sees Lady Mary"
"popular culture"". Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's heroic detective, has been criticized for being too perfect; over time, the various talents that he displays grow too numerous for some readers to swallow. Edmund Wilson also expressed his distaste for Lord Peter in his criticism of ""The Nine Tailors"": ""There was also a dreadful stock English nobleman of the casual and debonair kind, with the embarrassing name of Lord Peter Wimsey, and, although he was the focal character in the novel ... I had to skip a good deal of him, too."" Wimsey is rich, well-educated, charming, and brave, as well as"
"""The Inimitable Jeeves"", ""Carry On, Jeeves"", and ""Very Good, Jeeves"", followed by the novels. While ""Carry On, Jeeves"" features some earlier stories, it also includes stories that occur after events in ""The Inimitable Jeeves"", and is best read second. Jeeves Reginald Jeeves, usually referred to as just Jeeves, is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie Wooster. First appearing in print in 1915, Jeeves continued to feature in Wodehouse's work until his last completed"
"short of the boss's open office door (""Murder Must Advertise""). Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition to criminology, is collecting incunabula, books from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food (especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder (""double-six"") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which (like all his cars) he calls ""Mrs Merdle"" after a character in Charles Dickens's ""Little Dorrit"" who ""hated fuss"". Lord Peter Wimsey's (fictional) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who"
"The Lord Peter Wimsey short story ""The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag"" by Dorothy L. Sayers features a motorcycle chase along it. Similarly, ""Ruined City"" by Nevil Shute features an all night drive from Henry Warren's house in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, along the road as far as Rowley and then to Greenhead near Hadrian's Wall, where Warren is dropped off to go walking. His chauffeur, keen to get home for a date with the maid, is killed near Retford. In Cassandra Clare's ""Clockwork Princess"", the third volume of The Infernal Devices trilogy, Will Herondale takes the road"
"Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, Dorothy L. Sayers named a character Cremorna Garden. Cremorna was an actress of dubious repute, no doubt so named after the garden's racy reputation. In ""Coral"" by Compton Mackenzie (1925) in which Coral Avery, an upper-class girl, falls in love with her chauffeur, she gets him to drive down the Embankment to the Cremorne Arms at Chelsea reach, where they declare their love for each other. Cremorne Gardens, London Cremorne Gardens were popular pleasure gardens by the side of the River Thames in Chelsea, London. They lay between Chelsea Harbour and the end of the King's"
"Lord Peter Wimsey; as an eight-part adaptation by Alistair Beaton for Radio 4 in 1980, with Ian Carmichael as Wimsey; and as a single two-hour ""Murder for Christmas"" programme by Michelene Wandor in 1987, with Gary Bond as Wimsey. In 1974 the novel was adapted for BBC television by Anthony Steven as a series of four hour-long episodes, starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. The Nine Tailors The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Stranded after a car accident in the fenland village of Fenchurch St. Paul on"
"Ian Carmichael Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor best known for his roles in the films of the Boulting brothers such as ""Private's Progress"" (1956) and ""I'm All Right Jack"" (1959). Later he played Dorothy L. Sayers's Gentleman Detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, on television and radio. Carmichael also had a career on stage. Carmichael was born in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA. He made his stage"
"Busman's Honeymoon Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps"
"War II and thwarting Nazi spies. The crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) created the archetypal British aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923. Peter Haddon first played Wimsey in ""The Silent Passenger"" (1935), written by Sayers specifically for the screen. This was followed by ""Busman's Honeymoon"" (1940), also released as ""Haunted Honeymoon"", with Robert Montgomery as Wimsey. Later, Montgomery would also play Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe in ""The Lady in the Lake"" (1947). Doubleday's The Crime Club imprint published a variety of mystery novels that also inspired a radio show. Universal Pictures struck a deal to produce a"
"was released, in which Lord Peter, played by well-known comic actor Peter Haddon, solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the English Channel. Sayers disliked the film and James Brabazon describes it as an ""oddity, in which Dorothy's contribution was altered out of all recognition."" The novel ""Busman's Honeymoon"" was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne. A 1940 film of ""Busman's Honeymoon"" (US: ""The Haunted Honeymoon""), starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings as Lord and Lady Peter was released (with Seymour Hicks as Bunter), but the characters and events bore little resemblance"
"Roman poet Lucan. Dorothy L. Sayers Dorothy Leigh Sayers (; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays. Sayers,"
"The Silent Passenger The Silent Passenger is a British black-and-white mystery film produced in 1935 at Ealing Studios, London. This was the first film outing for novelist Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. It was based on an original story written by Sayers specifically for the screen. Her amateur sleuth was portrayed as a somewhat eccentric comical aristocrat who solved murders in spite of himself. A blackmailer is murdered by the husband of one of his victims, railway detective Henry Camberley (Donald Wolfit), but it is the innocent John Ryder (John Loder) who is suspected of the"
"as Lord Peter and Maria Aitken as Harriet Vane. It was adapted for television in 1987, as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane. Have His Carcase Have His Carcase is a 1932 locked-room mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the second in which Harriet Vane appears. During a hiking holiday at the resort of Wilvercombe on the South West coast of England, the detective novelist Harriet Vane discovers the body of a man lying on an isolated rock on the shore; his throat"
"and his relation to Sayers' life, and including a previously unpublished letter of Sayers to Victor Gollancz. Striding Folly Striding Folly is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972, it contains the final three Lord Peter stories. The first two, ""Striding Folly"" and ""The Haunted Policeman"", were previously published in ""Detection Medley"" (1939), an anthology of detective stories. The third one, ""Talboys"", was unpublished. All three stories were also anthologized by James Sandoe in the collection ""Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories"" (q.v.). The book"
"sort of intellectual companionship is Harriet Vane. Parker is also on congenial terms with the Dowager Duchess of Denver, owing to her close relationship with her second son. (The most in-depth descriptions of the friendship between Parker and Wimsey are in ""The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club"" in which Sayers describes the two men's interactions with each other.) Several Peter Wimsey stories were made into BBC television series in the 1970s, starring Ian Carmichael. In these, Parker was played by Mark Eden. In the 1980s three more stories (involving Harriet Vane) were made into BBC television serials. This time Wimsey"
"Striding Folly Striding Folly is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972, it contains the final three Lord Peter stories. The first two, ""Striding Folly"" and ""The Haunted Policeman"", were previously published in ""Detection Medley"" (1939), an anthology of detective stories. The third one, ""Talboys"", was unpublished. All three stories were also anthologized by James Sandoe in the collection ""Lord Peter: A Collection of All the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories"" (q.v.). The book also included a long preface by Janet Hitchman, including an extensive analysis of the character of Wimsey"
"mini-series starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. On the afternoon of 10 November, ninety-year-old General Fentiman is called to the deathbed of his estranged sister, Lady Dormer, and learns that under the terms of her will he stands to inherit most of her substantial fortune - money sorely needed by his grandsons Robert and George Fentiman. However, should the General die first, nearly everything will go to Lady Dormer's companion, Ann Dorland. Lady Dormer"
"guard; Susan runs away in hysterics and hitches a ride with a milkman (Joe Murphy). Paul and Annabelle return to her room to search for the missing envelope, and discover that Crosby's body is missing. Paul vanishes as the secret passage closes behind him. Wandering in the hidden passages, Paul is attacked by the Cat and left for dead. He regains consciousness in time to rescue Annabelle. The police arrive and arrest the Cat, who is Charlie Wilder in disguise; the guard is his accomplice. Wilder is the person named in the second will; he hoped to drive Annabelle insane"
"and to the cares of its daily management, in a way which Peter never was. The Late Scholar The Late Scholar is the fourth Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane detective novel written by Jill Paton Walsh. Featuring characters created by Dorothy L. Sayers, it was written with the co-operation and approval of Sayers' estate. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton (whose ""yellow jackets"" are alluded to in the book) on December 5, 2013 in the UK, and on January 14, 2014 in North America. ""The Late Scholar"" features the former Lord Peter Wimsey—now the Duke of Denver—and his wife, the"
"stories takes place between 1921 and 1937; the books in co-authorship extend this period through the Second World War and into the 1950s. During this whole period, Lord Peter has a manservant called Mervyn Bunter, and in him Sayers created a fictional persona that is fascinating and enigmatic. Sayers admitted having partially based Bunter's character on P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves, although Wimsey and Bunter are quite distinct from Wooster and Jeeves. He is the ultimate ""Gentleman's Gentleman"". Bunter ensures that his master is perfectly dressed, he cooks excellent meals, he is knowledgeable regarding spirits, wines and cigars and is faultless"
"He suffered a breakdown due to shell shock (which we now call post-traumatic stress disorder but which was then often thought, by those without first-hand experience of it, to be a species of malingering) and was eventually sent home. While sharing this experience, which the Dowager Duchess referred to as ""a jam"", Wimsey and Bunter arranged that if they were both to survive the war, Bunter would become Wimsey's valet. Throughout the books, Bunter takes care to address Wimsey as ""My Lord"". Nevertheless, he is a friend as well as a servant, and Wimsey again and again expresses amazement at"