Severin’s College at Oxford, he and Harriet are called to the college to resolve an academic dispute turned deadly.Īlthough she wanted to explore the phenomenon of the late and happy marriage (“which happens more in real life than is proportionately written about in fiction”), Walsh also agonized over what the post-War relationship between Peter, Harriet and their butler Bunter would be.
It’s mutated.” Wimsey’s elder brother has died, transforming Lord Peter into the Duke of Denver and, as the Visitor of St. You can’t not have him die.”Īnd by the time Paton Walsh is writing her latest, The Late Scholar, it’s set in 1953, they are still married and with grown sons, but “they’re after the war but haven’t really managed to get back where they were before it. George was killed in the Battle of Britain, and that is in written evidence, so that’s the truth. So she told somebody on a railway train that Lord St. “Anything that Dorothy said is absolutely set in concrete,” Paton Walsh explained. Stepping into the universe of an iconic character is not unlike working in superhero continuity. Paton Walsh also further developed the character of Wimsey’s resourceful valet Bunter (a precursor to the Green Hornet‘s Kato if ever there was). The case that made his bones is alluded to but never fleshed out in several of Sayers’ own Wimsey novels, so with her third Wimsey, The Attenbury Emeralds, in 2010, Paton Walsh reached back into history to explore the theft of gemstones at a country house party (it’s also a wink to the first modern detective novel, Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone). Article contentĪrguably the archetype of the British gentleman detective (Campion, Alleyn, Lynley, et al.), Lord Peter solved his first murder in 1921. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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