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The Wimsey Papers are a series of articles by Dorothy L. Sayers published between November 1939 and January 1940 in The Spectator.They had the form of letters exchanged by members of the Wimsey family and other characters familiar to readers of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels; but the articles were intended to convey Sayers's opinions and commentaries on various aspects of public life ...
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; [n 2] 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French.
The mode of compassing death has been carped at, but no one could do anything but rejoice at Miss Climpson and her subterfuges." [4] HRF Keating, writing in 1989, noted that Sayers had "invented a murder method that is appropriately dramatic and cunningly ingenious, the injection of an air-bubble with a hypodermic". However, "not only would it ...
The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring: 1999: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life: 2000: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time: 2002: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: A supplement ...
Crystal Downing has written two books on Dorothy Sayers, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers, which was granted the Barbara Reynolds Award for best Sayers scholarship in 2009 by the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, and Subversive: Christ, Culture and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers along with nearly 100 other scholarly essays. [7]
A Presumption of Death is a 2002 Lord Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mystery novel by Jill Paton Walsh, based loosely on The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L. Sayers.The novel is Walsh's first original Lord Peter Wimsey novel, following Thrones, Dominations, which Sayers left as an unfinished manuscript, and was completed by Walsh.
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Dorothy Sayers' co-author, under the pseudonym of Robert Eustace, was Dr Eustace Barton, a physician who also wrote medico-legal thrillers. Barton suggested to Sayers the scientific theme crucial to the novel's dénouement, which concerns the difference between a naturally produced organic compound and the corresponding synthetic material, and ...