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
| Whose Body? | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Clouds of Witness | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unnatural Death | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lord Peter Views the Body | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Strong Poison | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Five Red Herrings | (1931) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Have His Carcase | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hangman's Holiday | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Murder Must Advertise | (1933) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nine Tailors | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gaudy Night | (1935) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Busman's Honeymoon | (1937) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In the Teeth of the Evidence | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Striding Folly | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Books
(with Jill Paton Walsh)
| Thrones, Dominations | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Presumption of Death | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Attenbury Emeralds | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Late Scholar | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Documents In The Case | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Wimsey Papers | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Tools of Learning | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| A Treasury of Sayers Stories | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Two Plays about God and Man | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
| The Emperor Constantine | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Plays
| The Man Born to Be King | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Mind of the Maker | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Unpopular Opinions | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Creed or Chaos? | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Further Papers on Dante | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Are Women Human? | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Days of Christ's Coming | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wilkie Collins a Critical and Biographical Study | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Whimsical Christian | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Spiritual Writings | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 3, 1944-1950 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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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.
If You Like Dorothy L. Sayers Books, You’ll Love…
Also, if you like Dorothy Sayers, be sure to see the four books written by Jill Paton Walsh that continue the Peter Wimsey story and do it in the same vein as Sayers.