![]() ![]() ![]() The youngest 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. 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. Sayers, with four sequels by Jill Paton Walsh following her death. The hero of eleven books, a play, and a number of short stories created by Dorothy L. ![]()
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