Miss Climpson

Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson is a minor character in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. She appears in two novels: Unnatural Death (1927) and Strong Poison (1930), and is mentioned in Gaudy Night (1935).

Climpson is a spinster who assists Wimsey by doing inquiry and undercover work: Wimsey says she "asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush." In Unnatural Death Climpson is described as "a thin, middle-aged woman, with a sharp, sallow face and very vivacious manner".

In Strong Poison Climpson now runs an employment agency for women. She is a member of a jury in Harriet Vane's trial for murder, and holds out against a guilty verdict, creating a hung jury. She is described as having a "militant High-Church conscience of remarkable staying power." In spite of her conscience, she pretends to be a medium and holds a séance in order to obtain information.[1]

References
  1. Martin, Jessica (2019). "Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1857): God and the Detective". Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James. pp. 99–100. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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