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  • This is the third book in Walsh's continuation of Dorothy L Sayers's series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, his resourceful valet, Bunter, and Harriet Vane (now Lady Peter).

    Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010

  • Sayers's fans certainly won't be disappointed, and newcomers are in for a treat.

    Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010

  • Just as the British in Sayers's heyday dominated the mystery-writing business, it sometimes seems that we're now living in the age of Scandinavian detective fiction.

    Lord Peter Returns Tom Nolan 2011

  • All Sayers's hallmarks are here – ingenuity, in-depth research (but without the hairballs of factual information that too often clogged up the originals), dialogue peppered with quotations, and archness of tone (but without the grating snobbery).

    Laura Wilson's crime fiction choice - review Laura Wilson 2010

  • Dorothy L. Sayers's fat, black-bound Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, "Busman's Honeymoon" was one of the first I remember being given.

    England, My England (Never Having Been There) Alan Bradley 2011

  • I was familiar with the book in question, though my tastes ran to more worldly investigators than Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • As conversation material went, that would have beaten senseless any observations I might have made on Dorothy Sayers's technique.

    The Devil's Bedpost 2010

  • I just finished reading Joe Sayers's mini-comic, "I'm Gonna Rip Your Face Off" (discovered on the shelves of Portland's amazing, one-of-a-kind zine emporium Reading Frenzy) and man, that's some kind of bitter, angry funny!

    Boing Boing: November 19, 2006 - November 25, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Sayers's detective, the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey, reassures his wife about the seriousness of her craft, writing detective fiction.

    Beach Reading Without Guilt 2007

  • But Wilson was determined to see Sayers's work as garbage.

    DEPT OF PLUS CA CHANGE TEV 2007

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