# Whose Body? — Character guide

> Key figures in Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers.

- [Lord Peter Wimsey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/lord_peter_wimsey.md): Lord Peter Wimsey is a younger son of the Duke of Denver, a collector of incunabula, and an amateur detective whose hobby his family politely pretends does not exist. His whimsical patter and foppish manner conceal a gen
- [Mr. Parker](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/mr_parker.md): Parker is the professional policeman in the partnership, a man of patient method who takes statements, measures footprints, and reasons from evidence rather than intuition. He moves awkwardly among the great, conscious o
- [Bunter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/bunter.md): Bunter is the perfect servant of fiction made real: he attends auctions for Caxton folios, photographs crime scenes with arc-lamps and improvised backdrops, and extracts household gossip from cooks and butlers without ev
- [Sir Julian Freke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/sir_julian_freke.md): Sir Julian Freke is the eminent physician whose reputation for scientific brilliance is matched by an unsettling, fanatical intensity; his eyes search one through rather than resting kindly on a patient. When Wimsey cons
- [Mr. Thipps](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/little_mr_thipps.md): Mr. Thipps is a timid, respectable man of modest means whose one piece of bad luck is discovering a stranger's body in his own bathroom at eight in the morning. At the inquest he is bullied, cautioned, and nearly incrimi
- [Sir Reuben Levy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/sir_reuben_levy.md): Sir Reuben Levy is a Jewish financier who has risen from nothing to a knighthood without ever becoming vulgar, married to a woman of county family and devoted to his daughter Rachel. His servants speak of him with genuin
- [Inspector Sugg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/sugg.md): Sugg is the official police presence on the Battersea body case, a man whose pince-nez, snorts, and masterly inactivity make him the perfect foil to Wimsey's amateur meddling. He genuinely believes he has solved the crim
- [Mr. Crimplesham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/crimplesham.md): A solicitor who becomes agitated during the investigation.
- [Lady Levy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/lady_levy.md): Wife of Sir Reuben Levy, distressed by her husband's disappearance.
- [Mr. Cummings](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/mr_cummings.md): A friend of Mr. Thipps who provides an alibi.
- [Gladys Horrocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/gladys_horrocks.md): A maid in the Thipps household who gives testimony.
- [Mr. Piggott](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/mr_piggott.md): A young man who courts Gladys Horrocks.
- [Dowager Duchess of Denver](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/dowager_duchess_of_denver.md): Lord Peter's mother, a sharp-witted aristocrat.
- [Dr. Grimbold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/whose_body_se/characters/dr_grimbold.md): A doctor consulted during the case.

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