Thrones, Dominations Thrones, Dominations Thrones, Dominations is a Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane murder mystery novel that Dorothy L. Sayers began writing but abandoned, and which remained at her death as fragments and notes. It was completed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998. The title is a quotation from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and refers to two categories of angel in the Christian angelic hierarchy. Sayers had charted the developing relationship between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane over four published novels, culminating in "Busman's Honeymoon", the action of which takes place immediately following the couple's marriage. The characters appeared thereafter
Lord Peter Wimsey foundation for marriage, and politely but firmly declines his frequent proposals. Lord Peter encourages his friend and foil, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, to propose to his sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, despite the great difference in their rank and wealth. They marry and have a son, named Charles Peter ("Peterkin"), and a daughter, Mary Lucasta ("Polly"). While on a fishing holiday in Scotland, Wimsey instigates and takes part in the investigation of the murder of an artist, related in "Five Red Herrings". Despite the rejection of his marriage proposal, he continues to court Miss Vane. In "Have His Carcase", he finds