The detective genre is very popular in many countries, but the most popular it has always been and remains to this day in the UK. In the 20s, the so-called Detective Club was created there, which exists to this day. Among the founders of this club, along with such famous writers as Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and Ronald Knox, who
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The detective genre is very popular in many countries, but the most popular it has always been and remains to this day in the UK. In the 20s, the so-called Detective Club was created there, which exists to this day. Among the founders of this club, along with such famous writers as Chesterton, Agatha Christie, and Ronald Knox, who wrote the 10 Commandments of the Detective Novel, which the members of the club pledged to adhere to, was Dorothy Lee Sayers. Agatha Christie's favorite character was Hercule Poirot, and Sayers had an amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, who was widely known in narrow circles and who was willingly resorted to by the police. Her novels have also been filmed, and I have now watched the ten-episode series Dorothy Sayers Detectives, filmed by the BBC in 1987. These are essentially three miniseries, the main characters of which are Lord Peter Wimsey (Edward Peterbridge) and the lady of his heart, the detective novelist Harriett Wayne (Harriett Walter) whom he fell in love with at first sight, but who at first did not want to hear anything about the marriage he immediately offered her. They met under very tragic circumstances, when she was accused of the death of her ex-fiancé, with whom she had parted some time ago. Peter first helped unravel the case (three episodes of Strong Poison), and then they solved two more cases together. After she was acquitted, she went on a trip to the West of England, where she managed to again accidentally approach a new murder by finding the corpse of a young man on the shore (four episodes of "Finding the Dead" / Have His Carcase), as a detective, she collected evidence and went to the police, as the corpse was in the high tide and then it washed away, then called a familiar reporter, after which Sir Peter arrived there. And in the third case (three episodes of “Gaudy Night”) she goes to a meeting of graduates of women’s college in Oxford and there the headmistress asks her to deal with strange events happening at the college, she does not want to contact the police, worrying about the prestige of the college. And it won't be without Sir Peter. As is already clear from the brief descriptions, these are such traditional British detective series, which, of course, are an amateur, to which I consider myself, so I watched not without interest.
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