Feisty in her personality and controversial in her writing, Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an author who published poetry, detective novels, plays, essays, and translations of classic works—all in ...

Crime novelist Harriet Vane is on trial for murder. Can Lord Peter Wimsey save her?

I read a wonderful essay by Nadya Williams about Dorothy L. Sayers. If you aren’t familiar with Sayers, a British writer and scholar who lived from 1893 to 1957, you should become so. She was the ...

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull. With a flair for the dramatic, ...

Might as well admit it: once upon a time, disinclined to mix business with pleasure, I found the very idea of the “Philosophical Novel” off-putting. It was Alison Lurie’s Imaginary Friends, a ...

LONDON — Kathryn Wehr, Ph.D., has come to London from her home in Minnesota to speak about the work and life of the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957). “She is just so interesting,” begins ...

In the wake of WWI, a brilliant woman in search of an income found herself in a quandary. Here she was, a woman in a man’s world, and therefore unable to become a professor—a path she would have ...

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a ...

Crystal Downing, codirector of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, wrote an article for CT magazine four years ago that launched her most recent book on Dorothy L. Sayers, the renowned ...

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