By Book 6, Lord Peter is less of a fool and a fop, and more of a clever young man who hides himself behind a constant stream of light-hearted banter. Wodehouse), though the occasional flare-up of “shell shock” gave Lord Peter a little more gravitas. To begin with, Lord Peter and his clever valet Bunter seemed like a caricature of Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves (the comedic creations of P G. All of Sayers’s mysteries are clever, but this one is a little more substantial than the earlier books, with a lot more heart. Sayers’s series of Golden Age murder mysteries featuring the aristocrat-turned-private-detective Lord Peter Wimsey, and the one where the series really begins to turn into something special. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent. Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind.
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