Dorothy Sayers - Where to Start with her Mystery Novels?

Like mysteries ? Have you read Dorothy Sayers’ mystery novels?

Dorothy Sayers is a writer often associated with C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, who wrote many books for Christian audiences. She considered her best work to be her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

We recently posed the question of where to start with her mystery novels to David Neuhouser, who is a lover of mysteries and Scholar in Residence at Taylor University’s Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis and Friends (and Professor Emeritus at TU). Neuhouser has taught courses on Sayers, Lewis, Wendell Berry and perhaps his favorite, George Macdonald.

Have His Carcase: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

Read this one next, it is a good follow up to GAUDY NIGHT.
The title is taken from William Cowper’s translation of Book II of Homer’s Iliad: “The vulture’s maw / Shall have his carcase, and the dogs his bones.”

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4 Comments

Tammy Perlmutter
May 10, 2013 at 12:55 pm

Thanks for this!!! I’ve read the first two and will definitely finish with the others!
GinaRD
May 11, 2013 at 11:45 pm

I adore these books. Good piece.
TAO
May 13, 2013 at 3:03 pm

Regrettably, this list omits “Nine Tailors” — the most haunting and possibly the most accomplished of the Wimsey novels.
- bubsblurbs
  June 15, 2015 at 4:06 pm
  
  I agree. If you could only read one Wimsey novel I would recommend Nine Tailors. I’d also put Murder must Advertise before most of these.