Lord Peter Wimsey Lord Peter Wimsey Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. Lord Peter is often assisted by his valet and former batman, Mervyn Bunter; his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker; and in a few books by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife. Born in 1890 and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average
Marry Me (novel) is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved." Marry Me (novel) Marry Me: A Romance is a 1976 novel by American writer John Updike. As in Updike's 1968 "Couples", two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. The novel was well received by critics. In "The Atlantic", Richard Todd enthusiastically welcomed the book: "'Marry Me,'