Dorothy L. Sayers

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780060084615
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 820

Book Description
Gathered here for the first time in one volume are all the short stories by the legendary mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers. In this beguiling collection, Sayers conveys in her incomparable way the gruesome, the grotesque, and the bewitching. Here is the inimitable aristocrat, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of fiction's most popular detectives of all time, up to his usual exploits as he solves tantalizing puzzles, as only he can. And then there's the clever working-class salesman-sleuth, Montague Egg, who uses his everyday smarts to solve the cases that baffle the professionals. A sumptuous feast of criminal doings and undoings, Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories is a mystery lover's treasure trove of the amusing and appalling things that happen on the way to the gallows.

The Nine Tailors

Author: Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156658997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Bell strokes toll out the death of an unknown man, and summon Lord Wimsey to East Anglia to solve the mystery.

The Best Crime Stories Ever Told

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1620870495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

Book Description
When Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and '30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. Now today's fans of mystery and crime fiction can experience a handpicked collection featuring outstanding stories of the era.

Lord Peter

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060913800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
One of the founding mothers of mystery, Dorothy Sayers first introduced the popular character Lord Peter Wimsey in 1923 with the publication of Whose Body? Over the next twenty years, more novels and short stories about the aristocratic amateur sleuth appeared, each one as cunningly written as the next.Now in single volume, here are all the Lord Peter Wimsey stories, a treasure for any mystery lover. From "The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag" to "The Image in the Mirror" and "Talboys," this collection is Lord Peter at his best -- and a true testament to the art of detective fiction.

Hangman's Holiday

Author: Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description

Unnatural Death

Author: Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
ISBN:
Category : Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description

Busman's Honeymoon

Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1848943687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 444

Book Description
The thirteenth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Natasha Cooper - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane find the previous owner's body in the cellar. Set in a country village seething with secrets and snobbery, this is Dorothy L. Sayers' last full-length detective novel. Variously described as a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions, it lives up to both descriptions with style. 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' P. D. James

In the Teeth of the Evidence

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771060254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
A collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg, and others. Includes stories such as "Absolutely Everywhere," "Bitter Almonds", and "The Leopard Lady." Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Lord Peter Views the Body

Author: Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description

The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers

Author: Aoife Leahy
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443811998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote bestselling detective novels and short stories in the 1920s and 1930s. Working within a popular medium, Sayers promotes nineteenth century and modernist literature with skills learnt during a period of employment in an advertising agency. In much of her fiction she recommends her choice of good books by name. She also suggests that taking Victorian literature as a foundation can bring her reader to a better understanding of literary modernism. With a didactic intent, Sayers shows how Lewis Carroll’s Alice can help us to eventually read Virginia Woolf, for instance. Her approach to educating her readers is always through entertainment. Sayers worked briefly as a teacher before taking up copywriting and retained important insights on how to improve the learning experience for any reader. Sayers’ admiration for the Victorian sensation author Wilkie Collins is widely recognised. This book examines Sayers’ attention to equally important Victorian influences from John Ruskin and George Eliot to Oscar Wilde, particularly in relation to the topic of education. She often questions the boundaries between “popular” and “serious” literature. Sayers’ personal views on the connections between mid-Victorian, late Victorian and high modernist authors are also considered.