Charles Parker (detective) Charles Parker (detective) Sergeant/Inspector/Chief Inspector Charles "Parker Bird" Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and later becomes Lord Peter's brother-in-law. He is first introduced in "Whose Body?" as a Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard. In the next book, "Clouds of Witness", he is summoned to assist the local police in the North Riding of Yorkshire who are investigating the death of Captain Dennis Cathcart, the fiancé of Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, apparently at the hands of Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver. Parker first sees Lady Mary
Detective (band) disband. Michael Des Barres from the band performed songs on the fourth episode of the first season of the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" as part of the fictional hoodlum rock group "Scum of the Earth". Michael Des Barres (who played "Sir Charles Weatherbee" aka "Dog") and two other actors ("Peter Elbling", as "Blood", and "Jim Henderson", as "Nigel") played the part of the band during most of the TV show, but the band Detective performed on the end of the show segment. Detective (band) Detective was an American/English rock band that toured and recorded in the late 1970s. Detective consisted