FREE LORD PETER PDF Dorothy L Sayers | 488 pages | 09 Jul 2013 | Harper Paperbacks | 9780062275486 | English | New York, NY, United States Lord Peter Flint | Albion British Comics Database Wiki | Fandom Sayers and their continuation by Jill Lord Peter Walsh. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an Lord Peter for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often Lord Peter by his valet and former batmanMervyn Bunter ; by his good friend and later brother-in- law, police detective Charles Parker ; and, in a few Lord Peter, by Harriet Vanewho becomes his wife. Born in and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face. Reputedly [ according to whom? Wimsey also possessed considerable intelligence and athletic ability, evidenced by his playing cricket for Oxford University while earning a First. He created a spectacularly successful publicity campaign for Whifflet cigarettes while working for Pym's Publicity Ltd, and at age 40 was able Lord Peter turn three cartwheels in the office corridor, stopping just short of the boss's Lord Peter office door Murder Must Advertise. Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition Lord Peter criminology, is collecting incunabulabooks from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food and especially winemale fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach Lord Peter works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a cylinder "double-six" Daimler four-seater, which Lord Peter all his cars he calls "Mrs Merdle" after a character in Charles Dickens 's Little Dorrit who "hated fuss". The family coat of arms is blazoned as " Sable3 Lord Peter courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper ". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "As my Whimsy takes me. She is witty and intelligent, and strongly supports her younger son, whom she plainly prefers over her less intelligent, more conventional older son Geraldthe 16th Duke. Gerald's snobbish wife, Helen, detests Lord Peter. Gerald's son and heir is the devil-may-care Viscount St George. Lady Mary, the younger sister of the Duke and Lord Peter, leans strongly to the political left and scandalises much of her family by marrying a policeman of working-class Lord Peter. Lord Peter Wimsey is called "Lord" as he is the son of a Duke. This is a courtesy title so he is not a peer and has no right to sit in the House of Lords, nor does the title pass on to any offspring Lord Peter may have. As a boy, the young Peter Wimsey was, to the great distress of his father, strongly attached to an old, smelly poacher living at the edge of the family estate. In his youth Lord Peter was influenced by his maternal uncle Paul Delagardie, Lord Peter took it upon himself to instruct his nephew in the facts of life: how to conduct various love affairs and treat his lovers. Lord Peter was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, OxfordLord Peter with a first -class degree in history. He was also an outstanding cricketer, whose performance was still well remembered decades later. Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford. To his uncle's disappointment, Peter fell deeply in love with a young woman named Barbara and became engaged Lord Peter her. When the First World War broke out, he hastened to join the British Lord Peterreleasing Barbara from her engagement in case he was killed or mutilated. Lord Peter girl later married another, less principled officer. Wimsey served on the Western Front from toreaching the rank of Major in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed an Intelligence Officerand on one occasion he infiltrated the staff room of a German officer. As noted in Have His Carcasehe communicated at that time with British Intelligence using the Playfair cipher and became proficient in its use. For reasons Lord Peter clarified, after the end of his spy mission, Wimsey in the later part of the war moved from Intelligence and resumed the role of a regular line Lord Peter. He was a conscientious and effective commanding officer, popular with the men Lord Peter his command—an affection still retained by Wimsey's former soldiers Lord Peter years after the war, as is Lord Peter from a short passage in Clouds of Witness and an extensive reminiscence in Gaudy Night. In particular, while in the army he met Sergeant Mervyn Bunterwho had previously been in service. InWimsey was wounded by artillery fire near Caudry in France. 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 Lord Peter as "My Lord". Nevertheless, he is a friend as well as a servant, and Wimsey again and again expresses amazement at Bunter's high efficiency and competence in Lord Peter every sphere of life. Wimsey was for a time unable to give servants any orders whatsoever, since his wartime experience made him associate the giving of an order with causing the death of the person to whom the order was given. Bunter arrived and, with the approval of Lord Peter Dowager Duchess, took up his post as valet. Even Lord Peter later, however, Wimsey would have relapses—especially when his actions caused a murderer to Lord Peter hanged. As noted in Whose Body? Lord Peter begins his hobby of investigation by recovering The Attenbury Emeralds in At the beginning of Whose Lord Peter However, Wimsey is able to bypass Sugg through his friendship with Scotland Yard detective Charles Parkera sergeant in At Lord Peter end of Whose Body? In later books, Sugg fades away and Wimsey's relations with the police become dominated by his amicable partnership with Parker, Lord Peter eventually rises to the rank of Commander and becomes Wimsey's brother in law. Bunter, a man of many talents himself, not least photography, often proves instrumental in Peter's investigations. However, Wimsey is not entirely Lord Peter. At the end of the investigation in Whose Body? He soon recovers his senses and goes on a Lord Peter holiday. As Gerald is the Duke of Denver, he is tried by the entire House of Lords, as required by the law at that time, to much scandal and the distress of his wife Helen. Their sister, Lady Mary, also falls under suspicion. As a result of the slaughter of men in the First World War, there was in the UK a considerable imbalance between the sexes. It is not exactly known when Wimsey recruited Miss Climpson to run an undercover employment agency for women, a means to garner information from the otherwise inaccessible world of spinsters and widows, but it is prior to Unnatural Deathin which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient. Wimsey's highly effective idea Lord Peter that a male detective going around and asking questions is likely to arouse suspicion, while a middle- aged woman doing it would be dismissed as a gossip and people would speak openly to her. As recounted in the short story "The Adventurous Exploit of Lord Peter Cave of Ali Baba", in December Wimsey fakes his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyikato penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang. Only Wimsey's mother and sister, the loyal Bunter and Inspector Parker know he is still alive. Emerging victorious after more than a year masquerading as "the Lord Peter sacked servant Rogers", Wimsey remarks that "We shall have an awful time with the lawyers, Lord Peter that I am me. During the s, Wimsey has affairs with various women, which are the subject of much gossip in Britain and Europe. This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned Lord Peter the books set in the same period; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he meets Harriet Vane and relations with other women become a closed chapter. In Busman's Honeymoon Wimsey facetiously refers to a gentleman's duty "to remember whom he had taken to bed" so as not to embarrass his bedmate by calling her by the wrong name. There are several references to a relationship with a famous Viennese opera singer, and Bunter—who evidently was involved with this, as with other parts of his master's life—recalls Wimsey being very angry with a French mistress who mistreated her own servant. The only one of Wimsey's earlier women to appear in person is the artist Marjorie Phelps, who plays an important role in The Lord Peter at the Bellona Club. She has known Wimsey for years and is attracted to him, though it is not explicitly stated whether they were lovers. Wimsey likes Lord Peter, respects her, and enjoys her company—but that is not enough. In Strong Poisonshe is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realise that he has fallen in love with Harriet. In Strong Poison Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vanea cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover.