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Lord Peter
Paperback
Published January 1, 1995
About the author
Dorothy L. Sayers
752 books3,051 followersThe 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
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January 18, 2026
This very long book with a hideous cover, published in 1972, collects Sayers's Lord Peter mystery stories in one volume. I purchased it at a Friends of the Library sale. The paperback's binding became increasingly brittle as I read and several pages even fell out!
This was a very interesting read, on a technical level, as Peter's mind works in a different way and each story seems to tackle the mystery through a different direction. The most prevalent theme is that Peter looks so unoffensive that strangers start blabbing about an odd thing they have recently seen or endured. There's a medical condition mystery, and also one solved through know-how of the latest dental innovations. Now, it also must be noted that Sayers is an author of her time, and as with Christie, there are annoying bits of racism (very negative stereotypical descriptions of Italians and Jews, and one story in particular using the n-word with full derisiveness).
This was a very interesting read, on a technical level, as Peter's mind works in a different way and each story seems to tackle the mystery through a different direction. The most prevalent theme is that Peter looks so unoffensive that strangers start blabbing about an odd thing they have recently seen or endured. There's a medical condition mystery, and also one solved through know-how of the latest dental innovations. Now, it also must be noted that Sayers is an author of her time, and as with Christie, there are annoying bits of racism (very negative stereotypical descriptions of Italians and Jews, and one story in particular using the n-word with full derisiveness).
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