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Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey novels

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A well written detective novel series

Dorothy L Sayers wrote the Lord Peter Wimsey novels which are set in the 1930s and which take place in a world created by her within this period. The novels do use real places, but the people are totally imaginary.

The books are well written and you are provided with all the clues so that you can play the game of working out the solution! This contrasts with some other equally well known authors of the period who seem always to choose the least probable character for the person who did the murder, and then work the story around this person.

The books have been reprinted again and again since their original publication and although some of them are becoming a little dated they have been used in films and are also available in recorded speech format.

Contents

  1. List of novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
  2. My favourite Lord Peter Wimsey novels
  3. Other novels and short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey
  4. Lord Peter Wimsey on film
  5. Lord Peter Wimsey related items on Cafe Press
  6. Lord Peter Wimsey novels on audio
  7. Lord Peter Wimsey guestbook

List of novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey is Dorothy L Sayers' great detective who features in the following novels:-
  • Whose Body
  • Clouds of Witness
  • Unnatural Death
  • The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
  • Strong Poison
  • Five Red Herrings
  • Have His Carcase
  • Murder Must Advertise
  • The Nine Tailors
  • Gaudy Night
  • Busman's Honeymoon

My favourite Lord Peter Wimsey novels

My pick from the above titles, available from Amazon!

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Other novels and short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey

Dorothy L Sayers wrote several collections of short stories and started another novel featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. This was completed by Jill Paton-Walsh who wrote an additional complete Lord Peter Wimsey story herself.
  • Lord Peter views the Body
  • Hangman's Holiday
  • In the Teeth of the Evidence
  • Striding Folly
  • Lord Peter
  • Thrones, Dominations (completed by Jill Paton Walsh)
  • A Presumption of Death (Jill Paton Walsh)

Lord Peter Wimsey on film

Here are some DVD's which you can buy which use the Dorothy L Sayers' novels as a basis for their script.

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Lord Peter Wimsey related items on Cafe Press

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Lord Peter Wimsey novels on audio

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Lord Peter Wimsey guestbook

I love reading Dorothy L Sayers's novels and find them totally engrossing. Let me know here whether you enjoy them and liked my lens!

  • AslanBooks Nov 29, 2008 @ 8:53 pm | delete
    Excellent lens. I would like to personally invite you to join The Inklings: Remembering CS Lewis & Friends group.
  • Reggie_Marigold Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:03 pm | delete
    I'm not sure which is my favorite. Oh how I loved watching it on Mystery with my mom.
  • daoine Oct 7, 2008 @ 5:12 pm | delete
    I'll have to give one of these a try. I don't really enjoy mystery books (OD'd on them as a teenager and now find them too predictable), but you've intrigued me with the review that all the clues are made available to the reader. I really dislike books that throw in the villain in the last chapter and it is a character who has not appeared in the book until that moment, making it impossible for the reader to have known who the culprit was (Patricia Cornwell is guilty of this).
  • Portable_eBay Oct 7, 2008 @ 1:05 pm | delete
    I have the Nine Tailors in my shelf. Unread. A reserve for the rainy days.
  • SemperFidelis Oct 7, 2008 @ 11:47 am | delete
    Hi Gillie2tat,
    You've done a wonderful job on this lens. I like the way you've stayed focuses on your topic. ;)
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