Tag Archives: Dorothy L. Sayers

DISCUSSION: Unacceptable views?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Ela

I was reading a very interesting discussion last night on the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog (which generally reviews and discusses romance novels) which stemmed from one of the reviewer’s low rating of The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer – … Continue reading →

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The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Ela

(Hodder 2003, originally published 1934) The Nine Tailors is, arguably, Sayers’ best detective novel. It doesn’t sprawl, like Gaudy Night, and, although concerned with a dead body and how it got that way, is also concerned with family, personal honour … Continue reading →

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Unnatural Death – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Ela

(Hodder e-book 2003, originally published 1927) Lord Peter Wimsey has, by the time this book opens, already gained a reputation as an amateur sleuth – two characters each refer to events following on from Whose Body? and Clouds of Witness. … Continue reading →

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Five Red Herrings – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Ela

(Hodder e-book 2003, originally published 1931) Although this book – one of the series of detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – was written after Strong Poison, this book does not feature Harriet Vane at all, nor is she mentioned. … Continue reading →

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Whose Body? – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Ela

(Rising Star Visionary Press e-book, originally published in 1923) Whose Body? is the first of Sayers’ detective novels to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman sleuth. When we first encounter him he is about to go to a sale of Lord … Continue reading →

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Have His Carcase – Dorothy L. Sayers

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Ela

(Hodder & Stoughton 2003, originally published 1932) Harriet Vane, acquitted at a second trial of murdering her lover Philip Boyes (the story told in Strong Poison), is on a walking holiday in the south-west of England. She is a detective … Continue reading →

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