Order of Dorothy L. Sayers Books
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English author of crime fiction novels, poetry, plays, essays, translations and Christian humanism. Sayers is considered part of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. She is best known for her mystery novels featuring Peter Wimsey, an amateur sleuth. Sayers has influenced many different major authors, including Stieg Larsson and Diana Gabaldon.
Dorothy L. Sayers made her debut as a novelist in 1923 with Whose Body?, the beginning of her Peter Wimsey detective series. Below is a list of Dorothy L. Sayers’ books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey Books
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Whose Body? |
(1923) |
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Clouds of Witness |
(1926) |
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Unnatural Death |
(1927) |
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Lord Peter Views the Body |
(1928) |
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club |
(1928) |
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Strong Poison |
(1930) |
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Five Red Herrings |
(1931) |
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Have His Carcase |
(1932) |
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Hangman’s Holiday |
(1933) |
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Murder Must Advertise |
(1933) |
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The Nine Tailors |
(1934) |
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Gaudy Night |
(1935) |
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Busman’s Honeymoon |
(1937) |
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In the Teeth of the Evidence |
(1939) |
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Striding Folly |
(1973) |
Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Books
(with Jill Paton Walsh)
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Thrones, Dominations |
(1998) |
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A Presumption of Death |
(2002) |
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The Attenbury Emeralds |
(2010) |
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The Late Scholar |
(2013) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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The Documents In The Case |
(1930) |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
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The Wimsey Papers |
(1939) |
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The Lost Tools of Learning |
(1947) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
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A Treasury of Sayers Stories |
(1958) |
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Two Plays about God and Man |
(1985) |
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Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories |
(2002) |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
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The Emperor Constantine |
(1951) |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
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The Man Born to Be King |
(1943) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
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The Mind of the Maker |
(1941) |
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Unpopular Opinions |
(1946) |
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Creed or Chaos? |
(1947) |
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Further Papers on Dante |
(1957) |
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Are Women Human? |
(1959) |
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The Days of Christ’s Coming |
(1960) |
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Wilkie Collins a Critical and Biographical Study |
(1977) |
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The Whimsical Christian |
(1987) |
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Spiritual Writings |
(1993) |
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936 |
(1996) |
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943 |
(1998) |
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The letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 3, 1944-1950 |
(1999) |
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957 |
(2000) |
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time |
(2002) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror |
(1931) |
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The Floating Admiral |
(1931) |
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Ask a Policeman |
(1933) |
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More Anatomy of Murder |
(1936) |
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Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction |
(1948) |
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Human And Inhuman Stories |
(1963) |
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Nine Detective Stories |
(1964) |
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The Scoop and Behind the Screen |
(1983) |
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Double Death |
(1985) |
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English Country House Murders |
(1988) |
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Crime Never Pays |
(2001) |
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told |
(2002) |
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Murder On The Railways |
(2003) |
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The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction |
(2004) |
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The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes |
(2012) |
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Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays |
(2019) |
Notes: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is co-authored by Jill Paton Walsh. Ask a Policeman is co-authored by Anthony Berkeley and Milward Kennedy.