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The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring: 1999: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life: 2000: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time: 2002: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: A supplement ...
Dorothy L. Sayers, known as a novelist, also wrote the following plays: . Busman's Honeymoon ; Dorothy L. Sayers began writing plays for public performance in 1935 with Busman’s Honeymoon, a dramatic incarnation of the characters from her Lord Peter Wimsey books.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; [n 2] 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.
Lord Peter Death [a] Bredon Wimsey DSO (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective.
Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of television serial adaptations of five Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. They were broadcast on BBC1 between 1972 and 1975, beginning with Clouds of Witness in April 1972. [1]
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery is a series of television adaptations of three Lord Peter Wimsey novels—Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night—by Dorothy L. Sayers. The series follows the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter's romance with the crime writer Harriet Vane, and stars Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey, Harriet Walter as Vane and ...
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Lord Peter Wimsey is a series of full cast BBC Radio drama adaptations of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 1973 and 1983, with a further adaptation of Gaudy Night mounted for BBC Audiobooks in 2005 to complete the full sequence of Sayers' novels, all starring Ian Carmichael in the title role.