Dorothy Sayers

Four "queens of crime" dominated the Golden Age of the mystery novel, the years just before and after World War II: Agatha Christie and her fiendish way with plots; Dorothy Sayers with her cerebral Lord Peter Wimsey novels; New Zealander Ngaio Marsh embellishing the detective novel with flourishes from the theatrical and artistic worlds; and Margery Allingham, the most energetic of the four and the most resistant to classification.

A Queen of Mystery Sarah Weinman 2011

A dozen years ago Jill Paton Walsh was deputized by the estate of Dorothy Sayers to complete an unfinished manuscript by the mystery master involving the detective Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, his wife and fellow sleuth.

Lord Peter Returns Tom Nolan 2011

A & ldquo; masterpiece of epic drama, & rdquo; in the words of its renowned translator Dorothy Sayers, it provides a handy preface for students before they delve into readings on the Crusades that began in 1095.

John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010

"You've forgotten the thrillers!" he shouts to them, and then throws his copies of books by Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, etc. out of the window down to the garden below.

Archive 2010-09-01 David McDuff 2010

A & ldquo; masterpiece of epic drama, & rdquo; in the words of its renowned translator Dorothy Sayers, it provides a handy preface for students before they delve into readings on the Crusades that began in 1095.

John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010

A & ldquo; masterpiece of epic drama, & rdquo; in the words of its renowned translator Dorothy Sayers, it provides a handy preface for students before they delve into readings on the Crusades that began in 1095.

John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010

If you investigate the Dorothy Sayers stories you will discover that Mervyn Bunter did indeed have at least one brother they were part of a family of seven children whose name was Meredith.

BUNTER BANTER Toby O'B 2010

"You've forgotten the thrillers!" he shouts to them, and then throws his copies of books by Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, etc. out of the window down to the garden below.

The Pact and the Poet David McDuff 2010

In "The Simple Art of Murder," his cornerstone essay on detective fiction, Raymond Chandler famously drew a line in the sand between the American "hard-boiled" school of Dashiell Hammett and the more genteel traditions of writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

Review of "Think of a Number," a thriller by John Verdon Daniel Stashower 2010

Speaking of God as an author, have you read Dorothy Sayers on the Trinity?

A Break for Laziness Fresca 2010