A guide to Dorothy L Sayers and the Lord Peter Wimsey series
Dorothy L. Sayers is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Golden Age of British crime fiction. Discover her work with our handy series guide.
Posted on February 2, 2018 in Series guide
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The Lord Peter Wimsey series
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- Lord Peter Wimsey’s first appearance in a classic murder mystery – who is the dead man in the Battersea bath?
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- His second appearance is a thrilling quest to save his own brother – the Duke of Denver – from the hangman.
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- His third appearance is a story of murder in a most respectable seaside resort.
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- His fourth appearance solves the mystery of a of sudden death in a gentleman’s club in London.
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- He made his fifth appearance in this brilliant collection of ingenious short stories.
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- His sixth appearance introduces Harriet Vane – the love of his life – and her trial for the murder of her lover.
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- His seventh appearance takes him to an artists’ colony (based on a real one) in Scotland during the 1920s.
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- In his eighth appearance (and the second book featuring Harriet Vane) he solves a murder on a deserted English beach
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- This book of short stories is his ninth appearance and also introduces another detective, Montague Egg.
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- In his tenth appearance, he takes a job as an advertising copywriter to expose a ruthless killer.
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- The eleventh book featuring Lord Peter, set in a country church.
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- The twelfth book featuring Lord Peter (the third novel to feature Harriet Vane) is set in an Oxford women’s college.
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- The thirteeth book featuring Lord Peter (the fourth novel with Harriet Vane) is the story of their interrupted honeymoon.
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- The fourteenth book featuring Lord Peter is a collection of short stories: 17 little masterpieces of crime-writing.
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- The fifteenth book featuring Lord Peter (the fifth book with Harriet Vane) has three shorter tales.
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- The complete collection of Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey stories, together in one volume for the first time.
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- Jill Paton Walsh triumphantly completes Dorothy L. Sayers last unfinished detective novel, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and his new wife, Harriet Vane.
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- Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel – she did leave clues. A series of letters from members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator and several short stories. But until now, no one has really known what happened to them all.
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- Since the publication of A Presumption of Death, which was set in 1941 in the wartime English countryside, readers have been eagerly asking for this story – a wholly original and utterly engrossing new detective adventure.
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- A new murder mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey – now a Duke – and his wife Harriet Vane, set in an Oxford college in the 1950s.