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The Wimsey stories were popular, and successful enough for Sayers to leave the advertising agency where she was working. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ a ] Towards the end of the 1930s, and without explanation, Sayers stopped writing crime stories and turned instead to religious plays and essays, and to translations.
Lord Peter Wimsey novels (15 P) Pages in category "Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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.
Lord Peter Death [a] Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually stylised as Dorothy L. Sayers; 1893–1957) was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist; She was also a student of classical and modern languages. can you just move "and student of classical and modern languages" to the end of "Christian humanist", and cut the "and ...
First edition (publ. Harper & Row) Lord Peter is a collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.First published in 1972 (ISBN 0-380-01694-X), it includes all the short stories about Lord Peter written by Dorothy L. Sayers, most of which were published elsewhere soon after they were written, and some related writings.
Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers and in their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective .
The Documents in the Case is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace.It is the only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character.