Line #4 YMMV/LordPeterWimsey


1	* AluminumChristmasTrees: Critics at the time doubted that ''Unnatural Death'''s method of murder would work. Not only would it work, it was actually employed by a number of real-life murderers.
2	* CompleteMonster: Mary Whittaker from ''Unnatural Death'' cold-bloodedly murders her doting great-aunt; sacks, hunts down and murders her innocent maidservant; seduces and murders a trusting village girl; attempts to drug and murder both Lord Peter and an unsuspecting solicitor; bludgeons and attempts to murder Miss Climpson (who was collecting for charity at the time) and tries to have her distant cousin, a devoted clergyman, hanged for her crimes. Her only motive was [[InheritanceMurder securing an inheritance]] that she would almost certainly have received anyway.
3	* HarsherInHindsight: In ''Strong Poison'', Lord Peter announces that he wants to prove Harriet's innocence absolutely, and that he'd rather see her hanged than have the public think she was a murderess who escaped justice. While he does secure her acquittal and identifies the real killer, later stories reveal that [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion many in the public do still believe she was guilty]] and that he helped her pin the blame on someone else.
4	* HilariousInHindsight:
5	** ''Unnatural Death'' has a killer who kills leaving no trace except heart failure. [[Manga/DeathNote I wonder how he or she does it ...]]
6	** ''Five Red Herrings'' is built around public transport timetables, and at one point there's a discussion between several people where each one in turn recommends their preference for getting to Glasgow by train. These days, it reads exactly like the Monty Python "Neville Shunte" sketch.
7	* HoYay: Peter and Bunter, Peter and Parker, Harriet and Dr. Martin, every female who sets foot in the S.C.R. for more than a few seconds at a time, Whitaker and Findlater, Agatha and Clara...it goes on. It's rather shocking for the twenties and thirties.
8	* JerkassWoobie: George Fentiman is singularly bad-tempered, and infamous in his family for bullying his devoted wife. He also suffers from severe PTSD and chronic organ dysfunction from being gassed in the War, and suffers frequent self-destructive psychotic episodes.
9	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Doctor Wetherall]] in "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey"
10	** While [[spoiler: Annie]] has some genuinely awful beliefs about women, you might think they have a point about the classism of the S.C.R., until you remember they gaslighted a working-class scholarship student into attempting suicide, all just to create a scandal.
11	* NightmareFuel: The effects of [[spoiler:being inside a belfry when the bells are ringing]] in ''The Nine Tailors''.
12	* RetroactiveRecognition:
13	** In the Creator/BBCRadio adaptation of ''Strong Poison'', Nurse Booth is voiced by Creator/JoanHickson. It's faintly incongruous to hear Miss Climpson as the [[LittleOldLadyInvestigates investigative little old lady]] running rings round Literature/MissMarple herself.
14	** Also in the radio adaptations of ''Whose Body'' and ''Clouds of Witness'', [[Series/KeepingUpAppearances Hyacinth Bucket]] ("Bouquet!") is the Dowager Duchess.
15	** The 1970s TV adaptation also utilised a piece of incidental music titled "Size Ten Shuffle", a track now commonly associated to ''Paddington Bear''.
16	* SpoiledByTheFormat: By the beginning of chapter 14 of ''The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'', things seem to be wrapping up; Lord Peter has solved the problem he was asked to investigate and everything is lining up to confront the culprit. The reader however can tell that there's more to be revealed, because there remain 120 pages in the novel -- not to mention the fact that it's a murder mystery and so far there hasn't been (anything recognized as) a murder.
17	* ValuesDissonance: In-story. "Wot this country really needs is a 'Itler." It takes place (and was written) before the war broke out.
18	** Also, the part in ''Murder Must Advertise'' where they discuss how to get more people to smoke cigarettes.
19	** More minorly, in ''The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'', George Fentiman suffers stigma from his own close family because his wife is the breadwinner of their household. He's suffering from multiple invisible disabilities which prevent him working, which his family know perfectly well.
20	** Many of the academics in ''Gaudy Night'' argue in favour of what would now be considered human rights abuses - including forced sterilisations and other eugenics programs, and medical experimentation on prisoners.
21	** There's also the casual anti-Semitism and xenophobia/racism re: "foreigners"--very characteristic of the period, but rather especially unattractive coming from such an obviously literate and intelligent author:
22	-->"This gentleman, rather curly in the nose and fleshy about the eyelids, nevertheless came under Mr. Chesterton's definition of a nice Jew, for his name was neither Montagu nor [=McDonald=], but Nathan Abrahams, and he greeted Lord Peter with a hospitality amounting to enthusiasm."
23	** And everyone knows the lower classes would have no qualms about stealing a body lying in state. Of course in all justice the body was much disliked in life and the mastermind is a gentleman, and anyway they were doing it [[spoiler: so a friend won't be done out of his inheritance]]. Also they are careful to treat the body as reverently as possible, laying it out in an old chapel with flowers and everything once they've secured it.
24	** Then there's Peter's casual line in ''Have His Carcase'' that he always [[DrunkDriver drives more mellowly after a pint of beer]].
25	** The police constable in "The Haunted Policeman", with whom the reader is intended to sympathise, nevertheless is openly racist about a dark-skinned servant on his beat.
26	** Peter casually uses the n-word in conversation more than once - including in ''Unnatural Death'' and ''Murder Must Advertise''. (However, it must be noted, that in "British" English during the 1930s, that word had a very different definition, and a less-distasteful connotation.)
27	* ValuesResonance: ''Unnatural Death'' features an outwardly-wholesome white girl playing the WoundedGazelleGambit by murdering someone, faking her own kidnapping, and pretending they were victims of a ScaryMinoritySuspect.
28	* TheWoobie: Poor Bunter...
29	** Peter too, particularly when he has WWI flashbacks.
30	** Alice Wetherall

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