BlackHat Mystery BookstoreDorothy L. Sayers
[1893-1957]
![British mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957], portrait in oval (circa WWI?)](images/DorothyLSayers-oval.jpg "British mystery author Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957], portrait in oval (circa WWI?)") |
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Lord Peter Wimsey series
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“How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks.”
“There's nothing [that] you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.”
“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer
uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”
“I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.”
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Dorothy L. Sayers Society [est. 1976] in Witham, Essex, U.K.
Dorothy Sayers entry at Wikipedia
browse Dorothy Sayers Store at Amazon • browse audio
Dorothy Sayers [1935-1987] credits at Internet Movie Database
browse Dorothy Sayers on DVD at Amazon
Lord Peter Wimsey Series
Dorothy Sayers wrote about Lord Peter Wimsey in 13 novels, 21 short stories, and an unpublished screenplay.
Peter Wimsey belonged to the Marlborough Club (on web?) + lived at 110A Picadilly (1928); butler Mervyn Buntey & yacht Abracadabra
Lord Peter Wimsey entry at Wikipedia
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Whose Body?" [1923, rev 1935]
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-whose/sayers-whose-00-h.html
"Whose Body?" comedy stageplay [2002]
adapted by Frances Limoncelli at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Clouds of Witness" [1926, rev 1935]
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-clouds/sayers-clouds-00-h-dir/sayers-clouds-00-h.html
"Unnatural Death" [1927]
Sayers' original title was "The Singular Case of The Three Spinsters"; USA title "The Dawson Pedigree"
"The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club" [1928]
"Lord Peter Views The Body" [12 stories; Harper & Row 1928]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Strong Poison" [Harper & Row 1930]
Harriett Vane accused of arsenical poisoning of fiancé in Spain?
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayersdl-strongpoison/sayersdl-strongpoison-00-e.html
"Strong Poison" comedy stageplay [2004]
adapted by Frances Limoncelli at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Five Red Herrings" [1931] aka "Suspicious Characters"
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayersdl-fiveredherrings/sayersdl-fiveredherrings-00-h-dir/sayersdl-fiveredherrings-00-h.html
"Have His Carcase" [1932]
"Hangman's Holiday" [1933]
12 stories, including 4 Lord Peter
"Murder Must Advertise" [Harper & Row 1933]
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-advertise/sayers-advertise-00-h.html
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
 | "Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus" [1933] three complete Wimsey novels: "Whose Body?", "The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club", and "Suspicious Characters (aka 'The Five Red Herrings')" Harcourt, Brace & Co. hardcover [1937] out of print/very scarce |
"The Nine Tailors" [1934] in English fen country
"Gaudy Night" [Harper & Row 1935]
Harriett Vane, now dated by LPW [after accused of murder, then Wilvercombe case], at fictitious women's college in Oxford;
LPW enters case at pg 232; HV & LPW kissing at end
"Gaudy Night" comedy stageplay [2006]
adapted by Frances Limoncelli at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Sayers wrote the scenario for the film "The Silent Passenger" [1935]
a Lord Peter story which was never published in book form, and whose script was altered greatly by the film company {see below}
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story With Detective Interruptions" [1937]
based on the stageplay, co-written with Muriel St. Clair Byrne; published in
"Love All, Together With Busman's Honeymoon" [1984] Edited by Alzina Stone Dale
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-busman/sayers-busman-00-h.html
"The Wimsey Papers" 1941?]
a series of fictional letters by members of the Wimsey Family, published in The Spectator in the early months
of the Second World War, which are actually essays expressing Sayers' views on various subjects
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
 | "The New Sayers Omnibus" [1956] Comprising her three greatest detective stories: "The Five Red Herrings", "Have His Carcase", and "Murder Must Advertise" Victor Gollancz, Ltd. hardcover [1963] out of print/scarce Victor Gollancz, Ltd. hardcover [1957] out of print/scarce |
"The Sayers Tandem: Busman's Honeymoon and The Nine Tailors In One Volume" [1957]
Victor Gollancz, Ltd. hardcover [1962] out of print/scarce
 | "Lord Peter Omnibus" [1964] by Dorothy L Sayers Three of Dorothy L Sayers's full-length Lord Peter novels in one volume, namely: "Clouds of Witness", "Unnatural Death", and "The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club" Victor Gollancz, Ltd. hardcover [1964] out of print/scarce |
"Striding Folly" [3 stories 1972]
 | with Preface by Janet Hitchman and-or New (2003) Introduction by Elizabeth George The last three Lord Peter Wimsey short stories: "Striding Folly" (1939), "The Haunted Policeman" (1939), and previously unpublished "Talboys" Kindle Edition from Open Road Media [7/2012] for $6.15 Hodder & Stoughton mass pb [1993] out of print/used Hodder & Stoughton mass pb [10/73] out of print/40+ used book entry at Wikipedia |
"Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories" [1971]
 | Introduction by James Sandoe; first edition contains 20 Lord Peter stories; second edition includes all 21 stories by adding "Talboys" Flare Books/Avon mass pb [1972] out of print/used Harper 8x5¼ pb [7/2013] for $12.90 HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [2/2001] out of print/140+ used Harper & Row 8¼x6 pb [1972] out of print/many used Harper & Row/Perennial Library 8x5½ hardcover [1987] out of print/70+ used Harper & Row 8½x6 hardcover [1971] out of print/many used |
 | "The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook" [1981] by Elizabeth Bond Ryan & William J. Eakins Houghton Mifflin 9¾x6½ hardcover [10/81] out of print/50+ used |
 | "Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: The Lord Peter Wimsey - Harriet Vane Collection" [1987] includes 1987 episodes of "Strong Poison", "Have His Carcase", and "Gaudy Night" starring Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter & Richard Morant B.B.C. Video color DVD [5/2002] 3 disks for $43.99 B.B.C./Warner color VHS set [5/2002] 3 tapes out of prodn/used |
 | "Lord Peter Takes The Case: Four Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries - Clouds of Witness, Unnatural Death, The Five Red Herrings, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club" [1989] Book of The Month Club 8½x6 hardcover [1989] out of print/used |
 | "The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection - Whose Body?, The Five Red Herrings, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Nine Tailors" Octopus 8¾x5¾ hardcover [undated] out of print/used "Four Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels - Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night" [1990] Avenel Books 9x6¼ hardcover [5/90] out of print/50+ used "Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels - Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night" [1992] Random House Value Publng 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/92] out of print/50+ used "On The Case: Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels - Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Unnatural Death" [1992] Wings Books 9½x6½ hardcover [2/92] out of print/50+ used |
"Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories" [2002]
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Introduction by James Sandoe; includes all 21 Lord Peter short stories, the 11 Montague Egg stories, and 12 others, which are: "An Arrow O'er The House", "Blood Sacrifice", "The Cyprian Cat", "Dilemma", "The Fountain Plays", "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd", "The Leopard Lady", "The Man Who Knew How", "The Milk-Bottles", "Nebuchadnezzar", "Scrawns", and "Suspicion"
Bourbon Street Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2013] for $16.13 HarperCollins pb [7/2002] out of print/50+ used |
Lord Peter Wimsey on BBC Radio 4 [2007-2008?]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03j865z/episodes/guide#b00fc2y8
 | "Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Complete Collection" DVD Box Set [2013]
Acorn Media color DVD set [4/2013] 6 disks for $28.23 contains 5 mini-series for television starring Ian Carmichael: "Clouds of Witness" [5 episodes 1972]; "The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club" [4 episodes 1973]; "Murder Must Advertise" [4 episodes 1973]; "The Nine Tailors" [4 episodes 1973]; and "Five Red Herrings" [4 episodes 1975]; bonus material includes 38-minute interviews with Ian Carmichael, production notes, and biographies of Sayers and Carmichael |
Continuation Novels by Jill Paton Walsh
 | "Thrones, Dominations" [1998] by Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh Outlined by Sayers and abandoned in 1938, 80% co-written by Walsh; the story is about the murders of two beautiful young women who were involved with a theatrical producer, with a fascinating subplot involving the soon-to-abdicate King Edward VIII and a country on the brink of World War II. Kindle Edition from St. Martin's/Macmillan [1999 edition] for $7.99 Minotaur Books 8½x5½ pb [9/2012] for $15.76 St. Martin's Press 10x6½ hardcover [2/98] out of print/190+ used |
 | "A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery" [2003] by Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers Set in 1940; Lord Peter is working abroad for the Foreign Office, so Lady Harriet copes by taking the children to the country; the village's first air-raid practice ends with the discovery of a dead body, not from enemy action, but from good old-fashioned murder. Kindle Edition from Minotaur/Macmillan [2007 edition] for $7.99 Minotaur Books mass pb [8/2004] out of print/many used Minotaur Books 8½x5½ pb [11/2012] for $15.76 Minotaur Books 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2003] out of print/80+ used |
 | "The Attenbury Emeralds: Lord Peter Wimsey's First Case" [2010] by Jill Paton Walsh, 'based on characters of Dorothy L. Sayers' Back in 1921, Lord Peter solved his first case of detection, one involving the Attenbury Emeralds; shortly after Peter relates details of that case to Harriet, the new Lord Attenbury asks for help, as the ownership of the famous gems is in dispute. Kindle Edition from Minotaur/Macmillan [1/2011] for $9.99 Minotaur Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2012] for $12.15 Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2010] out of print/used |
 | "The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate" [2013] by Jill Paton Walsh, 'based on characters of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter is asked to settle a dispute at Oxford; a vote on the matter of a manuscript is tied; the vote would normally be decided by the Warden, but he has gone missing; once Peter & Harriet start investigating, several people are murdered . . . Kindle Edition from Minotaur/Macmillan [6/2014] for $11.04 
Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. 7¾x5 pb [12/2013] out of print/used Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. 9x6 pb [12/2013] out of print/used Minotaur Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [6/2014] for $16.43
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Other Fiction by Dorothy Sayers
listing of DLS's short stories & essays at PSP's Galactic Central Library
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"The Documents In The Case" [1930] written with Robert Eustace
 | Mushroom expert Harrison was dead from eating a large amount of deadly muscarine - was it an accident? suicide? or murder? HarperTorch mass pb [7/95] out of print/50+ used Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. mass pb [12/84] out of print/50+ used Harper & Row 9x6½ hardcover [1987] out of print/used |
"Combined Edition of The Works of Dorothy Sayers" [Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1938]
includes "Documents In The Case", "Clouds of Witness", "Murder Must Advertise", "Hangman's Holiday",
"Dawson Pedigree (Unnatural Death)", and "Lord Peter Views The Body"
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"In The Teeth of The Evidence and Other Stories" [1939]
17 short stories, including 2 Lord Peter;
editions published after 1972 usually add "Talboys", the last story she wrote about Lord Peter
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"A Treasury of Sayers Stories" collection [June 1958]
 | "Being 24 of The Finest Detective Short Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers"
contains 16 Lord Peter Wimsey stories, 6 Montague Egg stories, 2 others Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2012] for $2.99 {sic} CreateSpace 9¼x6 pb [5/2014] for $17.10 online etext of all 24 stories at Gutenberg Canada |
"The Sayers Holiday Book" collection [Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 1963]
includes "Strong Poison" [1930], "Gaudy Night" [1935], and the 17 stories in "In the Teeth of The Evidence" [1939]
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
 | "The Travelling Rug" short story [2005] by Dorothy L. Sayers
A previously-unpublished short detective story, probably written in the early to middle 1930s, planned by Sayers as the first in a series to be called "The Situations of Judkins" featuring housemaid Jane Eurydice Judkins. This book contains a (padded) version of the story, as well as a photographic reproduction of the manuscript at Wheaton College Library. The story has Judkins arriving at her employer's remote home, where she must strive for the employer's approval, fend off a cheeky chauffeur's attentions, and solve the problem of the poltergeist that is terrorizing the household. Mythopoeic Press 114-page 7¾x4%frac34 pb [10/2005] for $9.00 |
The Detection Club
Sayers participated in The Detection Club from 1930 and was President from 1949 to 1957;
the club published works that had a different member write each chapter in succession.
"The Floating Admiral" (1931, written with members of The Detection Club)
"Ask A Policeman" (1933, written with members of The Detection Club)
"Six Against The Yard" (1936, written with members of The Detection Club)
"Double Death: A Murder Story" (1939, written with members of The Detection Club)
"The Scoop" and "Behind The Screen" [1983]
originally published in The Listener in 1931 and 1930]
"No Flowers By Request" [1984] originally published in Daily Sketch in 1953;
published as book with "Crime On The Coast"
 | "The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of The Writers Who Invented The Modern Detective Story" [2015] by Martin Edwards The Detection Club in England is the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers; this first study of its history reveals the astonishing story of how members such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers reinvented detective fiction, producing a Golden Age of Mystery Literature. Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [5/2015] for $1.99 {sic} Collins Crime Club pb [DUE June 2016] for $15.99 HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/2015] for $19.03 |
Other Works by Dorothy Sayers
"The Omnibus of Crime: Stories of Crime, Cruelty, Horror, Blood, Revenge, Madness"
[62 stories Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1923] Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Garden City Publng 8½x5¾ hardcover [1929] out of print/used
with stories from authors A.J. Alan, Raymund Allen, Michael Arlen, F. Britten Austin, H.C. Bailey, C. Hedley Barker, Robert Barr, E.F. Benson, E.C. Bentley, J.D. Beresford, Ambrose Bierce, Marjorie Bowen, Ernest Bramah, A.M. Burrage, G.K. Chesterton, Charles A. Collins, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Eustace, W.F. Harvey, Robert Hichens, E.W. Hornung, Violet Hunt, Aldous Huxley, W.W. Jacobs, Montague Rhodes James, Edgar Jepson, Jerome K. Jerome, J.S. Le Fanu, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Arthur Machen, Ethel Colburn Mayne, L.T. Meade, John Metcalfe, Mrs. Oliphant, Eden Phillpotts, Edgar Allan Poe, A. C. Quiller-Couch, C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, Morley Roberts, R. Ellis Roberts, Sax Rohmer, Naomi Royde-Smith, 'Saki', May Sinclair, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Basil Thomson, F.A.M. Webster, H.G. Wells, Edward Lucas White, Victor L. Whitechurch, Percival Wilde, Mrs. Henry Wood, Anthony Wynne — and four more |
 | "Tales of Detection and Mystery: From The Omnibus of Crime" [1961] Selected & Introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers MacFadden Books mass pb [1962] out of print/used |
"The World's Great Crime Stories (The Second Omnibus of Crime)"
[42 stories Gollancz 1932, 52 stories Blue Ribbon 1939] Edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Gollancz/Blue Ribbon Books hardcover [1939] out of print/quite scarce
etexts of all 52 stories (as .PDF files) on Ron Unz's Free Library website contributing authors are: Stacy Aumonier, F. Britten Austin, R.H. Barham, Robert Barr, Max Beerbohm, E.C. Bentley, J.D. Beresford, Anthony Berkeley, Ambrose Bierce ("The Damned Thing"), Algernon Blackwood, Mrs. E. Bland, Ernest Bramah, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, A.M. Burrage, Agatha Christie ("The Adventure of The Clapham Cook"), Wilkie Collins, Stephen Crane, Freeman Wills Crofts, Clemence Dane, Walter de la Mare, J.S. Fletcher, Ford Madox Ford, Holloway Horn, Violet Hunt, W.W. Jacobs, Milward Kennedy, Manuel Komroff, J.S. Le Fanu, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Arthur Machen, Frederick Marryat, John Masefield, Herman Melville ("The Bell-Tower"), John Metcalfe, Mrs. Oliphant, Baroness Orczy, Barry Pain, Eden Phillpotts, Edgar Allan Poe ("Berenice"), Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, John Rhode, Naomi Royde-Smith, 'Saki' (H.H. Munro), editor Sayers ("The Cave of Ali Baba"), Henry Spicer, J.C. Squire, Sir Basil Thomson, Henry Wade, Hugh Walpole, H.G. Wells ("The Inexperienced Ghost"), Victor L. Whitechurch, and Percival Wilde |
"The Third Omnibus of Crime" [1935 & 1942]
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Coward McCann 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1935] out of print/used
Coward McCann hardcover [1935] out of print/used 52 stories by authors A.J. Alan, Martin Armstrong, Stacy Aumonier, J.J. Bell, John Betjeman, Algernon Blackwood, D.K. Broster, Thomas Burke, A.M. Burrage, Leslie Charteris, Carl Clausen, A.E. Coppard, Oswald Couldrey, Freeman Wills Crofts, E.M. Delafield, Lord Dunsany, James Francis Dwyer, St. John Ervine, J.S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, Leonora Gregory, Ormond Greville, L.P. Hartley, William Fryer Harvey, Helen R. Hull, Margaret Irwin, W.W. Jacobs, M.R. James, MacKinlay Kantor, Laurence Kirk, Manuel Komroff, H.A. Manhood, A. Merritt, John Metcalfe, Basil Mitchell, J.C. Moore, Robert E. Pinkerton, Melville Davisson Post, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Garnett Radcliffe, R. Ellis Roberts, Naomi Royde-Smith, Margery Sharp, Lady Eleanor Smith, Sir Frederick Treves, Henry Wade, H. Russell Wakefield, H.G. Wells ("The Story of The Late Mr. Elversham"), E.M. Winch, Clarence Winchester, Loel Yeo, and Francis Brett Young |
"Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories" [2002]
| | Introduction by James Sandoe; includes all 21 Lord Peter short stories, the 11 Montague Egg stories, and 12 others, which are: "An Arrow O'er The House", "Blood Sacrifice", "The Cyprian Cat", "Dilemma", "The Fountain Plays", "The Inspiration of Mr. Budd", "The Leopard Lady", "The Man Who Knew How", "The Milk-Bottles", "Nebuchadnezzar", "Scrawns", and "Suspicion"
Bourbon Street Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2013] for $16.13 HarperCollins pb [7/2002] out of print/50+ used |
"The Greatest Drama Ever Staged" [Hodder & Stoughton June 1938] by Dorothy L. Sayers
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-greatest/sayers-greatest-00-h.html
"Strong Meat" [Hodder & Stoughton 1939] by Dorothy L. Sayers
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-strong/sayers-strong-00-h.html
"Begin Here" [1940] essay on war-goals & peace-goals
"The Mind of The Maker" [1941] essay on theology
"Unpopular Opinions" [1946] essays,
including "The Mysterious English", "Are Women Human?", and "Dr. Watson's Middle Name"
"Creed or Chaos? and Other Essays In Popular Theology" [1947] essays,
including "The Greatest Drama Ever Staged", "Why Work?", and "The Other Six Deadly Sins"
"The Lost Tools of Learning" [1948] by Dorothy L. Sayers
Paper read at a Vacation Course in Education at Oxford in 1947
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-lost/sayers-lost-00-h.html
"The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell [1949]
http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Part-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140440062/
"Introductory Papers On Dante" [1954] essays, including "The Meaning of Heaven and Hell",
"The Meaning of Purgatory", and "Dante's Cosmos"
http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Papers-Dante-Alive-Writings/dp/1597524913/
"The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory [1955] ISBN 0-14-044046-1
"Further Papers On Dante" [1957] essays, including "And Telling You A Story",
"The Divine Poet & The Angelic Doctor", and "Dante and Milton"
http://www.amazon.com/Further-Papers-Dante-Heirs-Ancestors/dp/1597524921/
http://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Dante-Alighieri-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/B001DZ02W2/
"The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise [1962] ms completed by Barbara Reynolds
http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Part-Paradise-Classics/dp/0140441050/
http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Dante-Alighieri-Florentine/dp/B0011MZS7Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Passionate-Intellect-Dorothy-Sayers-Encounter/dp/1597521000/
"The Poetry of Search and The Poetry of Statement" [1963] essays, including "The Lost Tools of Learning",
"The Faust Legend and The Idea of The Devil", and "Oedipus Simplex"
 | "Sayers On Holmes: Essays and Fiction On Sherlock Holmes" [2001] by Dorothy L.Sayers, Edited & Introduction by Alzina Stone Dale Booklet of 54 pages reprinting various Holmesian essays by Sayers, and including a previously unpublished B.B.C. radio script, broadcast in 1954, in which an 8-year-old Lord Peter brings Holmes the problem of a missing cat. Mythopoeic Press 9¼x5¾ pb [8/2001] limited edition?/rare |
Stageplays, Radio, Other Media
list of stageplays by Dorothy Sayers at Wikipedia
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"Busman's Holiday" stageplay [Dec 1936] written with Muriel St. Clare Byrne
first performed at the Comedy Theatre in London, England, with Beatrice Wilson as director
"Haunted Honeymoon" [M.G.M.-U.K. July 1940]
 | At their big society wedding, Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane promise each other to stay out of further detective adventures. But when Peter gives Harriet the house where she grew up as a wedding present and they find the body of the previous owner in the cellar, it becomes quite difficult to keep that promise.
Directed by Arthur B. Woods; based on Sayers's stageplay & novel; cinematography by Freddie Young; starring Robert Montgomery {as LPW}, Constance Cummings {as Harriet}, Leslie Banks, Sir Seymour Hicks {as Bunter}, Robert Newton, Googie Withers, Frank Pettingell, Joan Kemp-Welch, Aubrey Mallalieu, James Carney, Roy Emerton, Louise Hampton, Eliot Makeham & Reginald Purdell VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
filmed as "Busman's Honeymoon" live TV [BBC-TV Oct 1947]
video/kinescope not available • starring Harold Warrender, Ruth Lodge & Ronald Adam •
credits at IMDb
filmed as "Busman's Honeymoon" TV movie [BBC-TV Oct 1957]
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • starring Peter Gray, Sarah Lawson & Charles Lloyd Pack •
credits at IMDb
"Busman's Honeymoon" comedy stageplay [2009]
adapted by Frances Limoncelli at the Lifeline Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
performance details
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"The Zeal of Thy House" pageant play [1937]
the story of William of Sens, architect of Canterbury Cathedral; performed at Westminster Theatre in London, England
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/In-the-Pageant-Produced-by-Dorothy-Sayers-Actors-Reenacting-a-Scene-Posters_i8524995_.htm
"He That Should Come" radio-play [1938] the story of the Nativity
"The Devil To Pay" pageant play [1939] the story of Faust
"Love All: A Comedy" stageplay [1940]
"The Man Born To Be King" radio-play series [1941] 12 episodes recounting the life of Christ
"The Just Vengeance" pageant play [1946]
focuses on the death of an airman to examine the theological dogma of the Atonement
"Where Do We Go From Here?" radio play [BBC Radio Feb 1948]
part of a radio series by The Detection Club; playscript has not been published
"Four Sacred Plays" [GOLLANCZ 1948] by Dorothy L. Sayers
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Sacred-Plays-Primary-Source/dp/129377619X/
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Sacred-Plays-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/1849024561/
contains four short plays by Sayers on a religious theme: "The Zeal of Thy House", "The Devil To Pay",
"He That Should Come", and "The Just Vengeance"
"The Emperor Constantine" pageant play [1951]
the life of the first Christian Roman emperor and his involvement with the Council of Nicaea
"Dorothy L. Sayers: Five Classic Radio Dramas" [2011] = 11 hours on 12 disks
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-L-Sayers-Classic-Dramas/dp/1609983181/
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-L-Sayers-Featuring-Wimsey%C2%A0%C2%A0/dp/B008JHX02Q/
Movies & Television
Dorothy Sayers [1935-1987] credits at Internet Movie Database
"The Silent Passenger" [Phoenix/ABFD U.K. June 1935]
 | Sayers wrote a scenario for the film, a new story about Lord Peter Wimsey, and is credited with 'based on an original story by', but the film story was majorly altered; the intended book was never published; the film was released at 75 minutes while the available Region 1 DVD is 54 minutes in length. On the express train from London to the English Channel crossing, a trunk turns up with the body of a murdered blackmailer in it . . . {The changes made by the film people included making Lord Peter somewhat stupid; this likely had to do with the actor who played the villain being top-billed, as at left.} Directed by Reginald Denham; starring Peter Haddon {as Wimsey}, John Loder, Lilian Oldland (Mary Newland), Austin Trevor, Donald Wolfit, Leslie Perrins, Aubrey Mather {as Bunter}, Robb Wilton, Ralph Truman
Sinister Cinema b&w DVD-R [5/2008] for $8.99 credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Suspicion" [CBS-TV March 1949] episode of "Suspense" TV series [1949-54] /tt0714008/
"Mr. Mummery's Suspicion" [CBS-TV Feb 1950] episode of "Actor's Studio" TV series /tt0505152/
"The Leopard Lady" [NBC-TV Sept 1950] episode of "Lights Out" TV series /tt0632371/
hosted by Frank Gallop; cast includes Martin Brandt, Sid Cassel, A.J. Herbert, Boris Karloff & Ronald Long
"Mr. Mummery's Suspicion" [CBS-TV Sept 1951] hour-long episode of "Studio One in Hollywood" TV series /tt0712345/
"Dilemma" [NBC-TV April 1953] half-hour episode of "Eye Witness" TV series /tt0574579/
"Our Cook's A Treasure" [CBS-TV Nov 1955] episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series [1955-62] /tt0508224/
cast includes Everett Sloane, Beulah Bondi, Janet Ward, Elliott Reid, Gavin Gordon, Doris Singleton
"In Those Days" b&w TV movie [Belgium 1968] /tt0339198/
"The Inspiration of Mr. Budd" [Anglia TV Dec 1973] half-hour episode of "Great Mysteries" TV Series [1973-74] /tt0592520/
hosted by Orson Welles; cast includes Hugh Griffith, Donal Donnelly, Glynn Edwards, Jenny Harrington
"The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries"
TV mini-series [B.B.C./Masterpiece Theatre 1972-75]
starring Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden & Rachel Herbert
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Acorn Media color DVD set [4/2013] 6 disks for $28.23
contains 5 mini-series for television starring Ian Carmichael: "Clouds of Witness" [5 episodes 1972; IMDb]; "The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club" [4 episodes 1973; IMDb]; "Murder Must Advertise" [4 episodes 1973; IMDb]; "The Nine Tailors" [4 episodes 1973; IMDb]; and "The Five Red Herrings" [4 episodes 1975; IMDb]; bonus material includes 38-minute inter-views with Ian Carmichael, production notes, and biographies of Sayers and Carmichael |
TV mini-series [B.B.C./WGBH-TV 1987]
starring starring Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter & Richard Morant
| | "The Lord Peter Wimsey - Harriet Vane Collection" [2002] includes three episodes of "Strong Poison", "Have His Carcase", and "Gaudy Night" B.B.C. Video color DVD [5/2002] 3 disks for $43.99 B.B.C./Warner color VHS set [5/2002] 3 tapes out of prodn/used |
Works About Dorothy Sayers
 | "Such A Strange Lady: The Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers, The Creator of Lord Peter Wimsey" [1975] by Janet Hitchman
Avon Books mass pb [10/76] out of print/many used New English Library mass pb [1976] out of print/used New English Library mass pb [1975] out of print/used Harper & Row 8x5½ hardcover [10/75] out of print/90+ used Harper & Row hardcover [10/75] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/Artist-Trinity-Dorothy-Sayers-Theology-ebook/dp/B00E1J3RQK/
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-L-Sayers-Centenary-Celebration/dp/0802732240/
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-L-Sayers-Centenary-Celebration/dp/B00HC31QBK/
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-L-Sayers-Fiction-Writer/dp/145280169X/
http://www.amazon.com/Maker-Craftsman-Story-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/0595266037/
http://www.amazon.com/Maker-craftsman-story-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/0802835155/
http://www.amazon.com/Sayers-Swindle-Book-Collector-Mystery/dp/0425255298/ = fxn
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Sins-Dorothy-Sayers-ebook/dp/B00GWSQ97W/
http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Approach-Modernism-Fiction-Dorothy/dp/1443809934/
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Performances-Stages-Dorothy-Sayers/dp/1403964521/
"Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul" [] by Barbara Reynolds
"Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman" [] by James Brabazon
http://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-Sayers-Biography-James-Brabazon/dp/0380589907/
"The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers" [] by Catherine Kenney
Friends & Family
Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming was born in 1893, lived in Bloomsbury, London from 1926, and died in 1957.
Sayers's illegitimate son & heir John Anthony Fleming [1924-84] {his father was Bill White}
husband Capt. Oswald Atherton 'Mac' Fleming [1881-1950] - married April 1926-1950
Sayers lived in a flat at 24 Great James Street in Bloomsbury, London from 1926 to her death (31 years).
L i n k s
Dorothy L. Sayers Society [est. 1976] in Witham, Essex, U.K.
Dorothy Sayers entry at Wikipedia
Dorothy Sayers [1935-1987] credits at Internet Movie Database
browse Dorothy Sayers Store at Amazon • browse audio
browse Dorothy Sayers on DVD at Amazon
Dorothy L. Sayers Section at The Marion E. Wade Center [est. 1974] of Wheaton College, Illinois
here on BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Dorothy L. Sayers [1893-1957] Page
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