Delphi Complete Works of Dorothy L. Sayers

by Dorothy L. Sayers, Delphi Classics (Editor)

Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sayers’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 16 Lord Peter Wimsey books, with individual contents tables
* Includes the collaborative ‘Detection Club’ novels, with rare works appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Notable translations available in no other collection
* Includes rare plays and non-fiction
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Lord Peter Wimsey Books
Whose Body? (1923)
Clouds of Witness (1926)
Unnatural Death (1927)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Lord Peter Views the Body (1928)
Strong Poison (1930)
The Five Red Herrings (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
Hangman’s Holiday (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman’s Honeymoon (1937)
In the Teeth of the Evidence (1939)
The Wimsey Papers (1940)
Striding Folly (1972)
The Collaborative Novels
The Documents in the Case (1930)
The Floating Admiral (1931) [one chapter cannot appear due to copyright restrictions]
Ask a Policeman (1933) [one chapter cannot appear due to copyright restrictions]
Six against the Yard (1936)
Double Death (1939) [one chapter cannot appear due to copyright restrictions]
The Shorter Fiction
A Treasury of Sayers Stories (1958)
The Translations
Tristan in Brittany (1929)
Dante’s Hell (1949)
Dante’s Purgatory (1955)
The Song of Roland (1957)
The Plays
The Zeal of Thy House (1938)
He That Should Come (1938)
The Devil to Pay (1939)
The Just Vengeance (1946)
The Non-Fiction
The Greatest Drama Ever Staged (1938)
Strong Meat (1939)
The Mind of the Maker (1941)
Unpopular Opinions (1946)
The Lost Tools of Learning (1948)

8861 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2021

About the author

The detective stories of well-known British writer Dorothy Leigh Sayers mostly feature the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey; she also translated the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

This renowned author and Christian humanist studied classical and modern languages.

Her best known mysteries, a series of short novels, set between World War I and World War II, feature an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. She is also known for her plays and essays.

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