Leonard Strong His 1932 novel "The Brothers" was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director David MacDonald; it starred Patricia Roc. One reviewer commented, "In a break from tradition, the film substitutes the novel's unhappy ending with an even unhappier one." Strong collaborated on or contributed to such filmscripts as "Haunted Honeymoon" (1940; a Dorothy L. Sayers story about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane), "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill" (1948), and "Happy Ever After" (1954). "Kirkus Reviews" asserted in 1935, "L. A. G. Strong can be counted on for a nostalgic picture of the call of the wild, and spins a
Lord Peter Wimsey and his family. Other recurring characters include Inspector Charles Parker, the family solicitor Mr Murbles, barrister Sir Impey Biggs, journalist Salcombe Hardy, and financial whiz the Honourable Freddy Arbuthnot, who finds himself entangled in the case in the first of the Wimsey books, "Whose Body?" ( 1923). Sayers wrote no more Wimsey murder mysteries, and only one story involving him, after the outbreak of the Second World War. In one of The Wimsey Papers, a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to