“Clouds of Witness” is a marked improvement over the debut Peter now has a family and a more logical station within his upper crust milieu. It’s up to Peter to clear the family name, which of course he will do because there’s no way a DUKE could be the bad guy. The main suspects are Peter’s not-that-bereaved little sister, May and Peter’s older, more consciously aristocratic brother, the Duke of Denver. This time around, crime comes close to home: Peter’s prospective brother-in-law is found dead on the lawn of Wimsey manor. In short, he’s suited to deal with anything the plot may throw at him.
His passion for the unexplored led him to hunt up obscure pamphlets in the British Museum, to unravel the emotional history of income-tax collectors, and to find out where his own drains led to.” He had been seen at half-past twelve on a Sunday morning walking in Hyde Park in a top-hat and frock-coat, reading the News of the World.
He was a respectable scholar in five or six languages, a musician of some skill and more understanding, something of an expert in toxicology, a collector of rare editions, an entertaining man-about-town, and a common sensationalist. “To Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues. Let’s have Sayers describe this monster of a genius who, a mere book ago, was a foppish, idle Wodehousian figure: He has so many depths he’s practically composed of holes. Sayers’ 1926 follow-up to “Whose Body?”) finds Lord Peter Wimsey attaining new depths of character. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.” – Hebrews 12: 1 ABOVE: The flying monocle had always wanted to own a suit… and its wish was finally granted.
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