Search Results for "Dorothy L. Sayers": 14 results
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (01) Whose Body?: Some time ago, I needed a novel to read at lunch, and found Whose Body?, the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy Sayers, in the work paperback exchange. "Ah-ha!" I said, "I will start re-reading Sayers over lunches...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (01) Whose Body? (radio play): I'd been contemplating the Ian Carmichael readings of Dorothy L. Sayers' novels for a while, so I was pleased to acquire a copy of the BBC radio play of Whose Body? with Carmichael in the lead. This worked very...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (02) Clouds of Witness: Dorothy Sayers's second Wimsey novel, Clouds of Witness, was another lunchtime read. I liked this a lot better this reading, probably because this time I noticed the theme: Truly enough the '47 port was a dead thing; the merest...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (03) Unnatural Death: Another Sayers novel, namely Unnatural Death, and another pleasant re-discovery. I mean, it has a happy, lifelong lesbian relationship with admirable and admired partners (broken only by one partner's death in 1922, before the book opens), legal neepery—neither of...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (04) The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: I'm almost pleased that I didn't like Dorothy Sayers' The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club much better on this re-read; I was starting to be afraid that I'd gone all uncritically fangirlish or something. It's a clever mystery, and...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (05) Lord Peter Views the Body: Next up in my Sayers re-read was the first short story collection, Lord Peter Views the Body (reprinted as the first twelve stories in Lord Peter [*]). I realized, reading this, that my backbrain doesn't consider these stories canon....
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (06) Strong Poison [2001 read]: Though the past couple of days have been quite busy, Strong Poison is quite short. This is the first Wimsey-Vane book; Harriet Vane is a mystery novelist on trial for poisoning her former lover—doubly scandalous in 1930. Peter Wimsey...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (06) Strong Poison [2004 read]; (07) The Five Red Herrings: My Sayers re-read has stalled out after the next two in the series, Strong Poison and The Five Red Herrings. I've logged Strong Poison fairly recently, so I'll just say that in spite of its flaws, I will forever...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (08) Have His Carcase: Dorothy Sayers' Have His Carcase is part of a collection of books that I informally call "books that were inexplicably never booklogged." I re-read it quite a while ago and somehow, it never appeared here. I'm logging it now because...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (09) Hangman's Holiday: For the next Dorothy Sayers collection in my re-read, Hangman's Holiday, I actually read the original collection rather than the stories reprinted in Lord Peter (the library had a copy). I am not impressed by any of the four Wimsey...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (10) Murder Must Advertise: Though Murder Must Advertise was Dorothy Sayers' next novel after Have His Carcase, Harriet Vane is completely absent; her single mention isn't even by name. Despite that, I'm very fond of this book, in which Peter goes undercover at an...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (11) The Nine Tailors: Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors is almost infinitely re-readable and got me through some tough times over the last few weeks. It is an unusual combination of precision and otherworldliness that results in remarkably human characters, gorgeous prose, and haunting...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (12) Gaudy Night [2001 read]: When I was leaving for Thanksgiving break, I wanted to bring along a nice long dense paperback, so I got Dorothy Sayer's Gaudy Night from the library. The cover of the most recent U.S. paperback calls it "A Lord...
Sayers, Dorothy L.: (13) Busman's Honeymoon [2001 read]: I feel like there ought to be more to say about Busman's Honeymoon than 1) it's very well done and 2) see Gaudy Night for the ways in which it's well done, except that this time the focus is...