 In 1948, the right of peers to be tried in such special courts was abolished; now, they are tried in the regular courts.The last such trial in the House was of Edward Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford, in 1935.An illustrative dramatisation circa 1928 of a trial of a peer (the fictional Duke of Denver) on a charge of murder (a felony) is portrayed in the 1972 BBC Television adaption of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey mystery "Clouds of Witness".