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Index
Abdication, of Prince Edward, 199, 202
“Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers, The” (Wimsey short story), 84
“Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba, The” (Wimsey short story), 85–86
Agriculture, 52–53, 155–56
Alexis, Paul, 137–41
Alibis, Sayers’s use of, 128, 132, 140–41
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 73
Anti-Semitism: in England, 162; Jews’ persecution in Germany, 160; in Wimsey novels, 30–31, 68
Arbuthnot, Freddy, 37, 53, 57, 100–101
Aristocracy: changes in British, 2–3; in Clouds of Witness, 47, 53–54; decline of, 24, 28, 194; Lord Peter Wimsey of, 22, 24–25, 44–45
Artists, 166; Bloomsbury Bohemians, 101–4, 109, 129; community of, 129–30
Austria, 12
Automobiles, in modernization, 3
Baldwin, Stanley, 195–96
Barber, Marjorie, 180, 182
Barton, Dr. Robert Eustace, 87–88
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