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Lord Peter Wimsey
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The hero of eleven books, a play, and a number of short stories created by Dorothy L. Sayers, with four sequels by Jill Paton Walsh following her death. The character and the stories he stars in are often considered among the best of the pre-World War II "Golden Age" mysteries, to the point where modern readers may see them as more like deconstructions of, parodies of, and occasionally paeans to British culture in the Interbellum that just happen to be about murder.The younger brother of the Duke of Denver, Lord Peter is an Amateur Sleuth with a keen observational faculty, an intense sense of justice and deeply ingrained trauma from his service in the trenches, all of which he hides behind a diffident and flippant personality. As he has no need for a job, he spends his time collecting rare books and acting as a police consultant in murder and grand larceny cases, frequently alongside Inspector Charles Parker of Scotland Yard and Mervyn Bunter, his loyal valet and old war comrade. Other recurring characters include Harriet Vane, Peter's love interest and a rare example of an Author Avatar done exceptionally well; Miss Climpson, an elderly spinster whom Peter sometimes sends on fact-finding missions; The Honourable Freddy Arbuthnot, financial genius; Peter's mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver; and Peter's sister, Lady Mary, who rebels against her aristocratic family by involving herself in socialist politics.The Wimsey stories take place between 1922 and 1936, and (a bit unusually for a mystery series) the characters age in real time: Lord Peter is thirty-two in Whose Body? and forty-six in Busman's Honeymoon.While there is an film called The Silent Passenger made in Sayers's lifetime based on the character, she disliked it, a feeling seemingly reciprocated by the public and fandom, as it has not survived. In 1940 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released a "satisfactory" film version of Busman's Honeymoon (called Haunted Honeymoon in the USA) starring Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings. In the 1970s, the BBC produced five miniseries starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter (Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise, and The Nine Tailors). Carmichael also starred in the BBC's radio drama series from the '70s to the '80s which adapted nearly all the novels, save for Gaudy Night, which was finally adapted in 2005. The '80s saw Edward Petherbridge and Harriet Walter adapt the three main Harriet Vane novels, Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night. Carmichael brought both humor and depth to the role, while Petherbridge emphasized the melancholy and romantic sides of the sleuth. | |
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Take Our Word for It: The TV adaptation of Murder Must Advertise is very careful not to show the allegedly obscene Nutrax advertisement, only the characters' reactions to it. | |
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Adapted Out: The BBC Five Red Herrings removes Constable Ross. In the BBC Murder Must Advertise loses its cricket match, and a number of characters who only appear in it. The TV Have His Carcase removes Charis, one of the professional dancers at the hotel. | |
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Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the 1975 Five Red Herrings, Mrs Farren is made jealous of her husband's friendship with Strachan, to the point that she strongly hints that they're in a relationship. To make this more plausible, Strachan becomes a bachelor, so his tomboy daughter is replaced by a teenage niece. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Rather than being killed at the end of the 1972 BBC Clouds of Witness, Grimethorpe survives and is hospitalised. Milligan survives to the end of the TV Murder Must Advertise and is one of Parker's arrests when he breaks up the drug-smuggling ring. | |
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Bait-and-Switch: In the BBC Five Red Herrings, Bunter notices Campbell's unattended easel in the distance and suggests that he walk up the river to investigate. Lord Peter tells him not to interfere, then adds: "Now just you listen to me. The idea of walking over there is quite absurd... We'll go in the car." | |
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Bifauxnen: In the 1986 adaptation of Strong Poison, the 'anti-man' Eiluned Price dresses in this style. | |
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Adaptation Name Change: In the TV Have His Carcase, a couple of names are made more obviously Cornish: Inspector Umpelty is renamed Inspector Trethowan, and Gaffer Gander becomes Gaffer Trewin. | |
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Composite Character: The TV Five Red Herrings removes Constable Duncan and gives his plot elements to Sergeant Dalziel. The radio version of Murder Must Advertise amalgamates Garratt, Copley and Smayle into a single character. The TV Murder Must Advertise combines Miss Rossiter and Mrs Johnson. | |
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