It's the little things...

[herewiss13]

I guess it's been a while since I last re-read "The Serpent's Shadow" by Mercedes Lackey, because it was with great surprise that I greeted Lord Peter Whimsey as a secondary character, lock, stock and personality quirk, under a pretty flimsy alias.  Lackey even threw in an epistolary epigraph among the man's relatives!  I'd caught Laurie King's homage when she did it, but apparently, hadn't read Sayers yet last time this tome graced my eyes.  How many other places does the man pop up?

I was heartily amused & am tempted to go back and visit Sayers again (still hard to believe I'd never read any of her works until about 3-4 years ago).

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Lord Peter Whimsey

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

I've loved him so much that I named my CAT Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey.

aka the Zoid (may he rest peacefully in the Cat Heaven in the Sky)

because "he was fair and Mayfair and acted the complete comedian" or something like that.

Re: Lord Peter Whimsey

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

My intro was the Ian Carmichael mysteries on DVD. If you haven't run across them, I cannot recommend them enough. No Harriet, but in all other aspects, he's become my canonical vision of the character (the actor's also done some splendid vocals as the narrator of Wodehouse audiobooks).