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 went with King Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre. This makes the Wimseys an unusually ancient family, since "Very few English noble families go that far in the first creation; rebellions and monarchic head choppings had seen to that", as reviewer Janet Hitchman noted in the introduction to "Striding Folly". The family coat of arms is blazoned as "Sable, 3 mice courant, argent; crest, a domestic cat couched as to spring, proper". The family motto, displayed under its coat of arms, is "As my Whimsy takes me." Lord Peter was the