5/9/2023 0 Comments Whose body sayers![]() Wimsey is actually described as “Bertie Wooster in horn rims” in a later book in the series, and Wooster (a dedicated reader of mystery novels, including Sayers’, it seems) tries to apply Wimsey’s methods in one of his later stories, with typically disastrous results. In the Wimsey stories, they involve murder and other major felonies. ![]() In the Wooster stories, these are usually domestic kerfuffles that resolve themselves in spite of Wooster’s well-intentioned interference. He’s a gentlemen of independent means living in London he’s a bachelor tended to by a brilliantly talented gentleman’s gentleman (Jeeves in the Wooster stories, Bunter in the Wimsey series) out of the goodness of his heart he becomes involved in the troubles of other people. ![]() Sayers has written hither and yon about how she developed Wimsey as a character, but to me it seems pretty clear that he’s the sort of person Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster would be if Wooster were a genius instead of an idiot. This book was written as a way out of this life and it worked, insofar as it opened the door to her career as a professional writer. ![]() In the 1920s Sayers, a clergyman’s daughter and Oxford graduate, found herself working in an advertising agency in London and living a somewhat irregular and unsatisfying life. This is the first and, arguably, the weakest of the novels Sayers wrote about her aristocratic detective and romantic hero, Lord Peter Wimsey. ![]()
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