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)
Clouds of Witness	(1926)
Unnatural Death	(1927)
Lord Peter Views the Body	(1928)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club	(1928)
Strong Poison	(1930)
Five Red Herrings	(1931)
Have His Carcase	(1932)
Hangman's Holiday	(1933)
Murder Must Advertise	(1933)
The Nine Tailors	(1934)
Gaudy Night	(1935)
Busman's Honeymoon	(1937)
In the Teeth of the Evidence	(1939)
Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories	(1972)
Striding Folly	(1973)

Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Books

Thrones, Dominations	(1998)
A Presumption of Death	(2002)
The Attenbury Emeralds	(2010)
The Late Scholar	(2013)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Documents In The Case

(1930)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

A Treasury of Sayers Stories	(1958)
Two Plays about God and Man	(1985)
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories	(2002)

Publication Order of Chapbooks

The Emperor Constantine

(1951)

Publication Order of Standalone Plays

The Man Born to Be King

(1943)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Mind of the Maker	(1941)
Unpopular Opinions	(1946)
Creed or Chaos?	(1947)
Further Papers on Dante (With: Barbara Reynolds)	(1957)
Are Women Human?	(1959)
The Days of Christ's Coming	(1960)
Wilkie Collins a Critical and Biographical Study	(1977)
The Whimsical Christian	(1987)
Spiritual Writings	(1993)
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936	(1996)
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 2, 1937-1943	(1998)
The letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 3, 1944-1950	(1999)
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957	(2000)
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time	(2002)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Ask a Policeman	(1933)
Human And Inhuman Stories	(1963)

Notes: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane is co-authored by Jill Patton Walsh. Ask a Policeman is co-authored by Anthony Berkeley and Milward Kennedy.

If You Like Dorothy L. Sayers Books, You’ll Love…

• P.D. James
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Raymond Chandler

One Response to “Order of Dorothy L. Sayers Books”

1. Lajeanne Leveton: 2 years ago

   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.

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