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[tree_and_leaf]

I've just been listening to a programme about Peter Wimsey on BBC7's Listen Again - thanks to harriet_wimsey for the heads-up.

Interesting stuff, especially Iain Carmichael's interview about making the TV and radio adaptions (I'd forgotten Simon Brett was involved in the latter which, along with the vocal talents of I.C. and the wonderful Peter Jones, goes some way to explaining their success).

But what really grabbed my attention was the fact that Peter Wimsey was first written as a minor character in a Sexton Blake story which DLS wrote and, for obvious reasons, never published.

Yes, that's right. Lord Peter originated as an OC in a fan-fic. I think there's encouragement for us all, there, don't you?

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[gramarye1971]

...that warms the cockles of my little black heart. ^_^

[snorkackcatcher]

That's brilliant. I'll remember that next time I see anyone getting snooty about fanfic. :)

[harriet-wimsey.livejournal.com]

I must not have been paying close enough attention, because I missed that bit. How cool! Just one more reason to love DLS. And also, you're welcome.

[tree_and_leaf]

.... Sexton Blake, too - not even a fandom with literary pretensions!

[tree_and_leaf]

Mine, too. And it adds an additional relish to the appalling Sexton Blakeish story (with self-insert) that Joe the office boy is telling himself throughout Murder Must Advertise.

[tree_and_leaf]

It was just mentioned in passing - but I found it very endearing, somehow.

[dolabellae.livejournal.com]

Of course, now I really want to read that story!

::still haven't made myself a Wimsey icon, mutter, mutter...::

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, me too. *Wonders what happened to DLS' papers*

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

They're mostly in Wheaton College, Illinois.

And, of course, she wrote _and published_ a LPW/Sherlock Holmes crossover, so one need not feel any guilt about writing LPW fic.

[(Anonymous)]

And have you read The Detective Club's books, where each detective writer has to do a chapter in the style of another?

[tree_and_leaf]

True - am trying to remember whether or not I've ever read that. Do you know where it's published?

[tree_and_leaf]

No, I haven't - they sound fun. Where were they published?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

copperbadge has a scan at http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/976576.html A jeu d’esprit, the story does an early example of Lord Peter’s ability to go to extreme lengths over an emotional attachment.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ooh, thankee! *scurries off to look*