Category:Lord Peter Wimsey
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Articles relating to the character of Lord Peter Wimsey and his various depictions in fiction. Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers and in their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. 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.
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