Sayers Annual Lecture in 2008 (reported in Sidelights Volume LVIII & published by The Dorothy L. Jim Kelly, in questions following his Dorothy L. It is all of these things, but it is also an exciting and very readable story which stands the test both of chronological time and also in the sense that it can be re-read many times and still offer something new to the reader. The Nine Tailors is considered a great work not just because it is a well-written piece of prose, or an inventive and original story, or because it includes well-loved characters old and new, or because it is well-structured, or because it documents a time gone by. One of the most highly acclaimed novels in the series, declared a masterpiece by connoisseurs of the genre, is The Nine Tailors which was first published in 1934. She wrote 11 novels featuring her aristocratic detective, Lord Peter Wimsey.

Her efforts writing detective novels earned her success, the financial and creative freedom to become a full-time writer, and secured her place among the great authors of detective fiction. Detective fiction writing was a popular enterprise at the time, and Sayers’s first novel Whose Body? appeared in 1923. Sayers first decided to try her hand at writing a crime novel.

It was during her time working for an advertising agency in the early 1920s that Dorothy L. Wade Center co-authored this post with Seona Ford and Jasmine Simeone, Chair and Secretary, respectively, of the Dorothy L. Sayers and her detective novel, The Nine Tailors. This blog post begins a series of posts reflecting on Dorothy L.

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