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Lord Peter Wimsey

by Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 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. She worked as an advertising copywriter between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923. Between then and 1939 she wrote ten more novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.

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The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate

How the series evolves

beginning
#1 Whose Body?
4.3· strong start
finale
#15 In the Teeth of the Evidence
0.0· messes up the ending
overall
2.9· it's a rollercoaster

Books in this Series

#1

Whose Body?

Dorothy L. Sayers
4.3 (28)
6

The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, in which the suave and witty gentleman foregoes a rare-book auction to investigate the presence of a bespectacled nude body in an architect's bathtub near the Wimsey's Denver estate

#9

Murder Must Advertise

Dorothy L. Sayers
2.7 (3)
4

When a man Victor Dean falls down the stairs in the offices of Pym's Publicity, a respectable London advertising agency, it looks like an accident. Then Lord Peter Wimsey is called in, and he soon discovers there's more to copy writing than meets the eye-- cocaine, blackmail, and some wanton women can be read between the lines.

#10

Hangman's holiday

Dorothy L. Sayers
3.0 (2)
1
#12

Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers
4.0 (10)
0

Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by mid-book. The romantic tensions between Harriet and Peter are explored. Gaudy Night is rich with literary allusions and is beautifully written.

#14

Thrones, dominations

Jill Paton Walsh
3.3 (3)
0

The wife of a wealthy man is found dead, and it is up to Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, Harriet, to solve the case.

#15

In the Teeth of the Evidence

Dorothy L. Sayers
0.0 (0)
1

[ix], 249 pages ; 20 cm