Dorothy L. Sayers - Bibliography

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British Author Bibliographies - Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)

Dorothy L. Sayers is recognized as one of the greatest mystery writers of the 20th century. Born in 1893 she was a noted Christian scholar, and became one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford University. In 1923 she published her first novel, Whose Body, which introduced Lord Peter Wimsey, her hero for fourteen volumes of novels and short stories. She also wrote four other novels in collaboration, and two serial stories for broadcasting. Writing full time she became the doyen of crime writers, and in due course president of the Detection Club.

Dorothy L. Sayers was well known for "combining detective writing with expert novelistic writing," and the imaginative ways in which her victims were disposed of. Among the many causes of death seen in her novels were, among others, poisoned teeth fillings, a cat with poisoned claws, church bells, and a dagger made of ice.

Dorothy Sayers also edited several mystery anthologies collected under the heading "The Omnibus of Crime" (1929), which included a noteworthy opening essay on the history of the mystery genre.

Later on in her life, Dorothy Sayers gave up detective fiction to pursue other interests. She spent the last years of her life working on an English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, having always claimed that religion and medieval studies were subjects more worthy of her time than writing detective stories.



Peter Wimsey
1. Whose Body? (1923)
2. Clouds of Witness (1926)
3. Unnatural Death (1927)
4. Lord Peter Views the Body (1928)
5. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
6. Strong Poison (1930)
7. Five Red Herrings (1931)
8. Have His Carcase (1932)
9. Hangman's Holiday (1933)
10. Murder Must Advertise (1933)
11. The Nine Tailors (1934)
12. Gaudy Night (1935)
13. Busman's Honeymoon (1937)
14. In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939)
Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories (1972)
Striding Folly (Short Stories) (1972)
Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane (with Jill Paton Walsh)
Thrones, Dominations (1998)
A Presumption of Death (2002)
Novels
The Documents in the Case (1930)
Anthologies edited
Stories of Crime and Detection
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
The Omnibus of Crime (1929)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 3rd Series (1934)
Tales of Detection and Mystery (1962)
Human and Inhuman Stories (1963)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
Anthologies containing stories by Dorothy L Sayers
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
And the Darkness Falls (1946)
Ten Tales of Detection (1967)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories by Women (1984)
A Century of Detective Stories (2001)
Other Works
with others: SIX AGAINST THE YARD / SIX AGAINST SCOTLAND YARD 1936
THE ZEAL THY HOUSE 1937
THE DEVIL TO PAY, BEING THE FAMOUS PLAY OF JOHN FAUSTUS 1939
IN THE TEETH OF THE EVIDENCE 1939
HE THAT SHOULD COME 1939
STRONG MEAT 1939
with others: DOUBLE DEATH 1939
BEGIN HERE 1939
THE MIND OF THE MAKER 1941
THE MAN BORN TO BE KING: A PLAY-CYCLE ON THE LIFE OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST (broadcast) 1941-42
LORD, I THANK THEE 1943
UNPOPULAR OPINIONS 1946
CREED OR CHAOS? AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POPULAR THEOLOGY 1947
THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE, A CHRONICLE 1951
THE DAYS OF CHRIST'S COMING 1953
INTRODUCTORY PAPERS ON DANTE 1954
FURTHER PAPERS ON DANTE 1957
THE POETRY OF SEARCH AND THE POETRY OF O STATEMENT, 1963
CHRISTIAN LETTERS TO A POST-CHRISTIAN WORLD 1969
ARE WOMEN HUMAN? 1971
A MATTER OF ETERNITY, WILKIE COLLINS: A CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY (ed. by E.R. Gregory) 1977
with others: THE SCOOP, AND BEHIND THE SCREEN 1983
with others: CRIME ON THE COAST, AND NO FLOWERS BY REQUEST, 1984
LOVE ALL (with M. St. C. Byrne) 1985
SPIRITUAL WRITINGS 1993
THE LETTERS OF DOROTHY L. SAYERS (4 vols.) 1996-2000
Books about Dorothy L Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds (1998)

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