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 may be presumed that Paul is named after Lord Peter's maternal uncle Paul Delagardie. "Roger" is an ancestral Wimsey name. In Sayers's final Wimsey story, the 1942 short story "Talboys", Peter and Harriet are enjoying rural domestic bliss with their three sons when Bredon, their first-born, is accused of the theft of prize peaches from the neighbour's tree. Peter and the accused set off to investigate and, of course, prove Bredon's innocence. Wimsey is described as having authored numerous books, among them the following fictitious works: Dorothy Sayers wrote 11 Wimsey novels and a number of short stories featuring Wimsey