Dorothy Leigh Sayers , British essayist, novelist, critic, scholar, and playwright, who made her reputation with the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, spent her final years on scholarship and chancel drama. Born in Oxford in 1893, the only child of...

Although Dorothy L. Sayers is known chiefly for her detective fiction and somewhat less well for her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, she was also a prolific and controversial essayist and lecturer. She is among the more significant modern British...

Her dozen detective novels and two dozen short stories in that genre established the reputation of Dorothy Leigh Sayers in the 1920s and 1930s as a major writer of mysteries; they also established Lord Peter Wimsey as an equally famous fictional...

SAYERS, DOROTHY L. (1893–1957) was a writer whose theology found expression through many literary genres. Sayers began her education in languages at the age of seven when her father, a Church of England clergyman, began teaching her Latin. She...

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short...

Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers. By Laura K. Simmons. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2005. 222 pp. $19.99 (paper). Dorothy L. Savers is most commonly recognized as a great writer of detective fiction, though some people...

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Here’s a pop quiz: Which of the following fictional detectives was not created by a female writer: (a) private investigator Kinsey Millhone (b) medical examiner Kay Scarpetta (c) caterer Goldy Schulz (d) police officer Ray Weiss (e) none of the above.It’s a bit of a...

In the following essay, Ohanian provides an overview of Sayers's Lord Wimsey stories, asserting that “each tale is a complete experience of the detective process, straightforward, as the medium dictates, and without too many of the ramifications and developments of which Sayers is fond.”

In the following essay, Sayers elucidates the defining characteristics of the detective story and the virtual disappearance of the detective short story genre.

In the following essay, Gaillard traces the character development of Sayers's protagonists Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg.