# Eric P. Loder — Lord Peter Views the Body character guide

> Eric P. Loder in Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Loder, Eric Loder, Mr. Eric Loder, the Loder

**First appearance:** 0000-the-abominable-history-of-the-man-with-copper-fingers

## Snapshot

A once-familiar host whose cynicisms have curdled from artistic pose into something unnervingly personal and real.

## Who they are

Eric Loder is a country host whose cordial greeting cannot disguise how much he has aged and how much more nervous his manner has grown. Where his disbelief in everything once seemed a kind of artistic pose, it now comes out as though he thoroughly means it, with an air of getting at you personally. That shift from performance to intensity makes him a figure of unease in the early arc, a man whose changing temper invites the suspicion that something beneath the surface has altered.

## Relationships

### [Maria Morano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/characters/maria_morano)

_romantic_

Eric P. Loder and Maria Morano are likely lovers or involved in a romantic entanglement central to a mystery.

### [Maria Morano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/characters/maria_morano)

_romantic_

Eric P. Loder and Maria Morano are likely lovers or involved in a romantic entanglement central to a mystery.

## In the story

### [The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/chapters/the-abominable-history-of-the-man-with-copper-fingers)

Sculptor and central figure of Varden's tale; suspected of planning to murder Varden and use his body for a statue.

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