![]() ![]() To a friend, it was a kind of escape to be able to writeĪbout a character who thought nothing of having lavish mealsĪnd buying rare incunabula at auction when her own budgetįor food and books was considerably more meager.Īt first meeting, Lord Peter may come off as rather frivolousĪnd superficial. ![]() (an experience she would draw on for a later Lord Peter mystery,ĭetective novels were popular, and could potentially earn her She took up various jobs teaching, workingįor a publisher, and writing for an advertising agency Read Dante and wrote articles and poems for student magazines.Īfter graduation, she published two short booksĪt this site). That was not what Sayers envisioned at the start of her career.įirst women to get a degree from Oxford University, where she Though Sayers is now most commonly known as a detective novelist, Print and widely read long after many more recent detectives Print more than 80 years ago, and published her last Wimsey story in theĮarly 1940s, there's still a freshness and sense of both wit and humanity In the public domain in the US at the time of this writing.Ĭreator, Dorothy L. This is his first published adventure, and the only one Mary Mark Ockerbloom and I are pleased to introduce Lord Peter Wimsey to the ![]() Sayers (1898-1957) Introduction to the online edition by John Mark Ockerbloom ![]()
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