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“Sayers in a way that would probably make that distinguished novelist spin in her grave. Years ago, actor Ian Carmichael starred in the film productions of a good chunk of them, which I eventualy saw on my public television station in Huntington Beach, California. I recal the host of the show reciting the impressive, salient details of Sayers’ life and career – early female graduate of Oxford, translator of Dante, among other things – and I was much impressed. But I was even more impressed with her delightful sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and I soon sought out her novels.
Because I had never been – and stil am not today – a great reader of detective fiction, I had not heard of this marvelous character. I quickly became swept up in everything about him: from his foppish use of language to his family relations. In very short order, I found myself thoroughly attached to Wimsey, to his calm and omnipresent manservant Bunter, to the Dowager Duchess of Denver (was ever there a more deliciously a...literative title?), to the stuffy Duke and the unbearable Duchess of Denver, to Viscount St.MoreLess
Because I had never been – and stil am not today – a great reader of detective fiction, I had not heard of this marvelous character. I quickly became swept up in everything about him: from his foppish use of language to his family relations. In very short order, I found myself thoroughly attached to Wimsey, to his calm and omnipresent manservant Bunter, to the Dowager Duchess of Denver (was ever there a more deliciously a...literative title?), to the stuffy Duke and the unbearable Duchess of Denver, to Viscount St.MoreLess
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