The beginning of their association is strictly commercial.

Wooster engages Jeeves through an agency. Among the distinctions are the relationships between the two characters and their valets. Lord Peter is a more complex, introspective, troubled and, thus, a more human character than Bertie. Much as I adore Wodehouse’s stories, Sayers takes the reader deeper into the human soul than Wodehouse. And, of course, both constantly find themselves in the midst of mysteries and conundrums which always find a happy resolution.īut Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey are noteworthy for their significant differences. (Indeed, Lord Peter and Bunter sometimes poke good-hearted fun at their fictional counterparts.) Both Bertie and Lord Peter are wealthy beyond measure, educated at Eton and Oxford, heavily dependent upon their respective valets, and witty bons vivants, enjoying all the extravagant privileges of early 20th-century British aristocracy. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster, along with his man, Jeeves. In some ways, Lord Peter is similar to another beloved character from British fiction, P.G. Lord Peter’s investigations also are supported by his good friend at Scotland Yard, detective Charles Parker. Never working alone, His Lordship is assisted in the early stories by his faithful valet, Mervyn Bunter, and later by Harriet Vane (whose place in the novels and stories I won’t spoil if you haven’t read them). The genius of the criminals is matched, of course, by the ingenuity, observational prowess and deductive reasoning skills of Lord Peter. The Lord Peter novels and stories are characterized by the cunning cleverness of the crimes, often associated with some profession or specialization of the antagonist criminal. Sayers debut novel, “ Whose Body?” This was the first of 11 novels and five short-story collections establishing Sayers’ status as one of the great mystery writers of the 20th century.

(OSV News) A book review in the May 27, 1923, edition of The New York Times opined, “there seems to be no reason why … Lord Peter should not become one of the best-known and best-liked among the many amateur detectives of fiction.” Thus did the prescient reviewer introduce an American audience to Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, the aristocratic sleuth of Dorothy L.

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