[1][2] The 1935 second edition of Sayers's second novel, Clouds of Witness, included a fictitious entry from Debrett's Peerage that described the Wimsey coat of arms.
"[2] Although in the words of his brother he is "a shocking ass", the character of Gerald is portrayed with a degree of sympathy, with his fictional uncle describing him as having "more sense of responsibility than I expected" and his reaction to Peter's marriage to Harriet being a favourable one.
[5] Her angry reaction to Peter and Harriet evading her interference in their wedding is echoed in another character's description of her as "a tartar, very cross, and as stiff as a poker"; and a later backhanded compliment in the novel states that "To do her justice, I can't see she could have found anything nastier to say if she'd thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.
"[2][5] In The Attenbury Emeralds, written by Jill Paton Walsh in 2010 with the cooperation of Sayers' estate, Gerald dies in 1951 from a heart attack during a fire at Duke's Denver.
[10] In what Scott-Giles was later to describe as "our beautiful game," he and Sayers, later to be joined by Helen Simpson and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, constructed an elaborate backstory for the Duchy of Denver that they took as far back as the Middle Ages.
"[11] As a group they produced a series of privately distributed pamphlets on the subject, and gave lectures, some of the ideas that they constructed even making it into Sayers's novel Busman's Honeymoon.