🎭 Culture Sep 2, 2026 · Paula Marantz Cohen

Adding Wimsey to My Life

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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I am 73 years old and happily married, but I recently fell in love—not with an actual person but with a fictional character. This sort of thing hasn’t happened since high school, when Heathcliff inflamed my adolescent imagination. But now, after a lifetime of reading, I find myself besotted by Lord Peter Wimsey, the amateur detective of uncanny insight and resourcefulness who figures in 11 novels and numerous stories by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Sayers was one of the queens of detective fiction’s so-ca

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