In a 1937 essay, the English writer Dorothy L. Sayers explained the genesis of her most famous character and one of crime fiction’s most memorable detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey.

Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers After Sayers married off Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in Busman's Honeymoon (1937), she devoted herself to translating Dante's Divine Comedy.

I first encountered Wimsey, the most famous creation of the mystery novelist Dorothy L. Sayers—whose first novel, Whose Body?, was published a century ago this year—in January 2022.

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull.

Indeed, Sayers’s angel says of Idea, Energy, and Power, “these three are one.” Called The Zeal of Thy House , Sayers’s 1937 play ran for 100 performances, having moved from Canterbury to ...

Marie Benedict follows up "The Mysteries of Mrs. Christie" with "The Queens of Crime," in which Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and others solve a real-life crime.

She argued that Sayers “prophetically challenged the signs of her times,” and her book Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers was published in 2020.

Dorothy Sayers at a press conference in December 1941 before the broadcasting of The Man Born to be King. With her, from left to right, are: J. A. Kensit of the Protestant Truth Society; Dr J. W.

THRONES, DOMINATIONSBy Dorothy L. SayersSt. Martin’s Press, $23.95Could this be the best book Dorothy L. Sayers never wrote? Sayers put aside a 170-page draft of her 12th full-length Lord Peter ...

Dorothy L Sayers wrote some of the great detective stories of the 1930s. Her books hinge on a series of conventions – ingenious murders, clues that fit together like pieces in a puzzle, a closed ...

An ingenious idea goes a long way in “The Queens of Crime.” It’s 1930. We’re in London, where popular mystery writer Agatha ...