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''Clouds of Witness'' is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers , the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey . The fiancé of Lord Peter's sister, Lady Mary Wimsey, is found dead outside the conservatory of the ancestral family home, Duke's Denver; the Duke is charged with capital murder and put on trial in the House Of Lords . Lady Mary is clearly hiding something, as is the Duke Of Denver , but Lord Peter and his friend Charles Parker of Scotland Yard eventually get to the truth. The plot revolves around a number of love affairs and ends with Lady Mary and Detective-Inspector Parker becoming interested in each other. The novel's title alludes to Hebrews 12:1: "we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses". In solving the mystery, Lord Peter's problem is the opposite of the usual case: rather than having too few clues to go on, there are too many. ''Clouds of Witness'' was adapted for television in 1972 , as part of a series starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. |
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