Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
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Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor mehr anzeigen of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (2004) 396 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death (2013) 197 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist (1995) 180 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels/Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Unnatural Death (1991) 126 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Dorothy L. Sayers: 3 Complete Lord Peter Wimseyn Ovels : Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Guady Night (1992) 107 Exemplare, 4 Rezensionen
In die Wirklichkeit entlassen. Unpopuläre Ansichten über Glaube, Kunst und Gesellschaft (1946) 105 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1937-1943, From Novelist to Playwright (1997) 102 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays (The Gospel in Great Writers) (2018) 58 Exemplare, 10 Rezensionen
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Murder Must Advertise, the Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, Have His Carcass & Strong… (1998) 56 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume II (1931) — Herausgeber — 49 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Lord Peter and Harriet: Part II (Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, Lost Classics Omnibus) (2005) 37 Exemplare
Omnibus: Containing Whose body? The unpleasantness at the Bellona club, Suspicious characters (1975) 32 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red… (2018) 32 Exemplare
Whose Body?: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) (1973) 31 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Why Work?: Discovering Real Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work. A Christian Perspective. (2014) 28 Exemplare
Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon (1990) 27 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1: Three classic full-cast dramatisations (2017) 25 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: Starring Ian Carmichael (BBC Radio Collection) (1975) 25 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC Radio Collection) (1978) 25 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection: Lord Peter Views the Body / Hangman's Holiday / In the Teeth of the… (2018) 25 Exemplare
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, Nine… (1990) 23 Exemplare
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume III (1934) — Herausgeber — 20 Exemplare
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (2017) 18 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three: Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's… (2018) 18 Exemplare
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2018) 18 Exemplare
Have His Carcase: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Ian Carmichael & Maria Aitken (BBC Radio Collection) (1981) 15 Exemplare
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection, Volume 3: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 15 Exemplare
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 14 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Mystery (The Case of the Perfect Maid, The Third-Floor Flat, The Image in the Mirror, The Red-Headed League) (1989) 13 Exemplare
Striding Folly [short story] 13 Exemplare
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: "Strong Poison", "Murder Must Advertise" and "Nine Tailors" (1978) 11 Exemplare
The Christ of the Creeds: And Other Broadcast Messages to the British People During World War II (2008) 8 Exemplare
The mysterious English 8 Exemplare
Early Works of Dorothy Sayers 6 Exemplare
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers (2019) 6 Exemplare
Dorothy L. Sayers: Five Classic Radio Dramas Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey (2011) 5 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Sayers holiday book 5 Exemplare
Mitt namn är Wimsey 4 Exemplare
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
The other six deadly sins: An address given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October… (1943) 4 Exemplare
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume VI — Herausgeber — 3 Exemplare
De cyperse kat en dertien andere moordzaken 3 Exemplare
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Busman's Honeymoon (2004) 3 Exemplare
Have his carcase 3 Exemplare
Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Strong Poison / Unnatural Death / Busman's Honeymoon (1982) 3 Exemplare
Diskrete Zeugen / Ärger im Bellona- Club / Ein Toter zuwenig. Drei Kriminalromane in einem Band. (1989) 3 Exemplare
Peter Wimsey Omnibus - Whose Body? Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon (Unabridged) (2012) 2 Exemplare
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French. The Original French Text with an English… (2003) 2 Exemplare
OBRAS ESCOGIDAS. EL MISTERIO DE RIDDLESDALE LODGE. LORD PETER DESCUBRE EL DELITO. CINTO PISTAS FALSAS. EL CASO DEL… (1964) 2 Exemplare
Lord Peter Wimsey 2 Exemplare
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume IV — Herausgeber — 2 Exemplare
The Dororty L Sayers Mysteries Collection 1 Exemplar
The nine tailors; Changes rung in on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals 1 Exemplar
MORTE DUPLA 1 Exemplar
Backgrounds to World Literature. Classics for Christians Volume I (1980) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Dorothy L. Sayers Set (6 novels) 1 Exemplar
The Art of the Actor 1 Exemplar
Drei neue Fälle für Lord Peter Das Spukhaus im Merriman's Endf Die Weinprobe Der Pfirsichdieb 1 Exemplar
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume V — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking (a collection of quotable quotes) (2010) 1 Exemplar
The Story of Adam and Christ 1 Exemplar
Onrust in Oxford & Moord op de ijzeren trap 1 Exemplar
Masterpieces Of Mystery And Detection 1 Exemplar
The Story of Noah's Ark 1 Exemplar
Let's Choose Executors 1 Exemplar
The Murder of Julia Wallace [essay] 1 Exemplar
Trup w wannie 1 Exemplar
Z dowodem w zębach 1 Exemplar
Kat poszedł na urlop 1 Exemplar
Lord Peter ogląda zwłoki 1 Exemplar
Zjadliwa trucizna 1 Exemplar
Zastęp świadków 1 Exemplar
Four Mystery Classics 1 Exemplar
Kein Titel 1 Exemplar
OBRA SELECTA 1 Exemplar
Busman's holiday 1 Exemplar
Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries 1 Exemplar
Sayers, Dorothy L 1 Exemplar
Třikrát lord Petr 1 Exemplar
O Mistério de Battersea 1 Exemplar
anything that she writes 1 Exemplar
Das Spiegelbild 1 Exemplar
The Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: The Five Red herrings, Strong Poison, Lord Peter Views the Body (1933) 1 Exemplar
And Telling You a Story 1 Exemplar
The Poetry of Search and Poetry of Statement 1 Exemplar
The 2nd Omnibus of Crime 1 Exemplar
The House Of The Soul Lay 1 Exemplar
The Lord Peter Wimsey MEGAPACK® 1 Exemplar
Dante papers trilogy. 1 Exemplar
Dorothy Sayers Box Set (Four Mystery Classics Featuring the Inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, Box Set: Whose Body?; Strong… (1968) 1 Exemplar
Dorothy Sayers bedste Lord Peter-Historier 1 Exemplar
THE LORD PETER WIMSEY COLLECTION 1 Exemplar
Two Lord Peter Wimsey Stories 1 Exemplar
Her Oxford 1 Exemplar
Ein unheimlicher Kunde 1 Exemplar
Dorothy L. Sayers 4 Book Set - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Strong Poison - Murder Must Advertise -… (1963) 1 Exemplar
A "caixa" 1 Exemplar
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Inferno (1314) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 24,600 Exemplare, 214 Rezensionen
Das Rolandslied (1040) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 5,522 Exemplare, 40 Rezensionen
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Mitwirkender — 364 Exemplare, 4 Rezensionen
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories Not for the Nervous (1966) — Mitwirkender — 305 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women (2000) — Mitwirkender — 268 Exemplare, 6 Rezensionen
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (2019) — Autor — 208 Exemplare, 6 Rezensionen
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Mitwirkender — 205 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Mitwirkender — 118 Exemplare, 9 Rezensionen
101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories 1841-1941 (1941) — Mitwirkender — 104 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century (1995) — Mitwirkender — 90 Exemplare
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden… (2019) — Mitwirkender — 71 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
Murder Most Cozy: Mysteries in the Classic Tradition (1993) — Mitwirkender — 55 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Mitwirkender — 52 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Mitwirkender — 51 Exemplare
Murder at Teatime: Mysteries in the Classic Cozy Tradition (1996) — Mitwirkender — 50 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Mitwirkender — 48 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Harriet Vane Collection (Strong Poison / Have His Carcase / Gaudy Night) (2014) — Original book — 46 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Murder Most British: Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1996) — Mitwirkender — 39 Exemplare
Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection (2022) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Grande Dames of Detection: Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Sisters of Sorcery: Two Centuries of Witchcraft Stories by the Gentle Sex (1976) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Doppelter Tod. Ein klassischer Kriminalroman aus dem Jahre 1939. (1939) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries (2019) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Detective Stories (The Treasure Hunt / The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim / The Necklace of Pearls) (1996) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives (1991) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Dante's Purgatorio (The Divine Comedy, Volume II, Purgatory) [Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with an… (1308) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 13 Exemplare
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Modern detective Stories : By Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, MacKinlay Kantor, Freeman W. Crofts, Cyril Hare. (1996) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
The Fourth Mystery Bedside Book — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Great Mystery Series: Eight of the Best Mysteries by the Top Women Writers [audiobook] (2000) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Crime and Detection (Second Series) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Das Grosse Lesebuch des Englischen Krimis 2 Exemplare
Best Crime Stories 2 — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Mystery and Suspense — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
The great detectives — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
No Flowers by Request — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Stories for girls — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Tchnienie Grozy — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Hånden i sandet og andre virkelige kriminalsager skildret af berømte kriminalforfattere (1974) 1 Exemplar, 1 Rezension
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Andere Namen
- Fleming, Dorothy Leigh
Flemming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Geburtstag
- 1893-06-13
- Todestag
- 1957-12-17
- Begräbnisort
- St. Anne's Church, London, England, UK
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- England, UK
- Geburtsort
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Sterbeort
- Witham, England, UK
- Todesursache
- coronary thrombosis
- Wohnorte
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Witham, England, UK - Ausbildung
- Oxford University (Somerville College)
Godolphin School, Salisbury - Berufe
- copywriter
playwright
translator
mystery writer
essayist
The Detection Club, president - Beziehungen
- Reynolds, Barbara (goddaughter)
- Organisationen
- Detection Club
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Archie Goodwin Award (2007)
Blue Plaque - Kurzbiographie
- Although best known as a writer of Golden Age British mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers also was a student of classical and modern languages, a playwright, and an essayist. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is still considered a classic.
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Das Hörbuch ist gut gelesen. Insgesamt ist der Text recht behäbig und lässt sich über viele Nebensächlichkeiten lange aus. Vor allem die Arbeitsatmosphäre in der Agentur wird dadurch gut deutlich, aus heutiger Sicht natürlich ein faszinierendes Zeitdokument. Dorothy Sayers schreibt mit einem Augenzwinkern, viele Stellen sind ausgesprochen witzig.
Ein bisschen nervt mich der britische Dünkel, auch dass Menschen unterschiedlich viel wert sind (um den und den Toten ist es nicht schade...) und das Ende an sich (so spricht ein Mann) finde ich aus heutiger Sicht befremdlich. Insgesamt ist es aber ein vergnüglicher, lesenswerter, typisch britischer Kriminalroman im "alten Stil".… (mehr)