Passionate fans of British mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers like to argue that their heroine wrote more like Jane Austin than Agatha Christie. But crime-driven thrillers — especially those featuring a ...

In Walsh’s cleverly plotted fourth mystery featuring the titular husband-wife sleuthing team—her second wholly original effort authorized by the Dorothy Sayers estate—Wimsey has succeeded to the title ...

Lord Peter Wimsey solved his first murder in 1923, made his debut on live television in 1947 and his television series debut on Masterpiece Theatre in 1972, and has just bounded into the 21st century ...

Evidence of Dorothy L Sayers's obsessive relationship with her detective hero, Lord Peter Wimsey, comes to light this week in a collection of previously unseen letters and notebooks. The writer, who ...

Jill Paton Walsh, read by Edward Petherbridge, AudioGo, unabridged, eight CDs, 8 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-148-8 Walsh's interpretation of the classic characters of Dorothy L. Sayers labors under ...

One thing British mystery-lovers ought to know about fictional sleuths: Wherever they go, murder follows. So why would the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey and his mystery-author bride Harriet ...

The old-fasioned dramatics of the BBC’s radio adaptation conceal a darker, more difficult story. By Caroline Crampton Walking into the kitchen on a Monday evening to find, as ever, the radio blaring, ...

Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of his friend, Harriet Vane, a young mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but the shrewd, ...

Next in our countdown of crosswords in film, TV, books and song: Dorothy L Sayers asks readers to solve a crossword to solve a mystery In our look at fictional crosswords, we've seen puzzles denounced ...

Ian Carmichael stars in his most celebrated radio role as amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Honeymooners Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife soon find their marital bliss disturbed - by something nasty in ...