The Casual Vacancy & Lord Peter Wimsey

[donnaimmaculata]

So, the posting challenge that has been going around has finally inspired me to make a post with fannish contents. This makes me very proud (I'm easily pleased).

Over a month ago, I finally read JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. (I actually wanted to make a post about it straightaway, but... yeah

Comments

[shocolate]

1) I loved it, too - all such fallible, petty, normal people.

2) agreed, but we've had the Inspector Lynley Mysteries quite recently, with the earl!detective.

[donnaimmaculata]

1) I also very much admired how she wrote about small-town, middle-class bigotry and managed to not recycle the Dursleys!

2) Hm, would you believe I've never really watched the Inspector Lynley Mysteries? I caught a few episodes on German telly, but since they're dubbed, it doesn't really count.

[shocolate]

2) they're not that great - despite Dan's mother doing the original casting - but they are recent.

Although, of course, they're present day, so a period Wimsey series shouldn't really be an issue.

[donnaimmaculata]

so a period Wimsey series shouldn't really be an issue

Exactly. Especially since the Twenties came back en vogue lately in the wake of The Great Gatsby.

[shocolate]

I think I was just preemptively wincing at the people who have never heard of him and would say, "who is this aristocratic detective, copying Lynley?"

[donnaimmaculata]

I would have thought Lord Peter Wimsey is so well-known as one of the seminal detectives - on a par with Miss Marple and Poirot, though not as well-know as Sherlock Holmes - that everyone would instantly recognise him as an established literary character. But I might be naive.