Wimsey also possesses considerable intelligence and athletic ability, evidenced by his playing cricket for Oxford University while earning a First. Twice in the novels (in Murder Must Advertise and Busman's Honeymoon) his looks are compared to those of the actor Ralph Lynn. Reputedly his looks are patterned after those of academic and poet Roy Ridley, whom Sayers briefly met after witnessing him read his Newdigate Prize-winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913. He is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter by his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker and, in a few books, by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.īorn in 1890 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. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Gerald Wimsey, 16th Duke of Denver (brother) Mortimer Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver (father) Edward Petherbridge (Television, stage play)Īristocrat, amateur Detective, army officer
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