Lord Peter Wimsey years and is attracted to him, though it is not explicitly stated whether they were lovers. Wimsey likes her, respects her, and enjoys her company—but that is not enough. In "Strong Poison", she is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realise that he has fallen in love with Harriet. In "Strong Poison" Lord Peter encounters Harriet Vane, a cerebral, Oxford-educated mystery writer, while she is on trial for the murder of her former lover. He falls in love with her at first sight. Wimsey saves her from the gallows, but she believes that gratitude is not a good
The Image in the Mirror The Image in the Mirror "The Image in the Mirror" is short story by Dorothy L. Sayers, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and published as the first story in "Hangman's Holiday" in 1933. This story is notable for its inaccurate depiction of right/left mirror image twins, and more generally for its use of popular science to explore the subject of inversion. A man, who states that his body is a mirror image of the normal body plan, confesses to Lord Peter Wimsey that he is worried he is going mad, due to blackouts in which he (or somebody identical to him)