# Uncle Meleager — Lord Peter Views the Body character guide

> Uncle Meleager in Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Meleager, old Uncle Meleager

**First appearance:** 0002-the-fascinating-problem-of-uncle-meleager-s-will

## Snapshot

A dead eccentric whose will is a crossword puzzle, leaving his heirs to decipher seven-letter words before they can inherit.

## Who they are

Uncle Meleager is the departed relative whose will takes the form of a crossword, turning a family inheritance into a test of verbal ingenuity. His puzzle reaches even into Lord Peter's bathroom, where Bunter's hunt for a seven-letter word meaning two — 'Ambsace' — becomes the first clue in the game. By making his legacy a riddle, Meleager forces his heirs to match wits rather than merely wait, and draws Wimsey into a problem that is part wordplay and part detection.

## In the story

### [The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager’s Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/chapters/the-fascinating-problem-of-uncle-meleager-s-will)

Deceased eccentric who hid his will and enjoyed crossword puzzles.

### [Solution to the Crossword in Uncle Mealager’s Will](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lord_peter_views_the_body_se/chapters/solution-to-the-crossword-in-uncle-mealager-s-will)

The deceased uncle whose will contains the cryptic crossword that Lord Peter deciphers.

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