Order of Dorothy L. Sayers Books

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer known for her contributions to crime fiction, poetry, plays, essays, translations, and Christian humanism. She is recognized as a key figure in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, particularly for her mystery novels featuring the amateur detective Peter Wimsey. Sayers has had a significant impact on numerous prominent authors, including Stieg Larsson and Diana Gabaldon. She made her novelistic debut in 1923 with "Whose Body?", which marked the start of her Peter Wimsey detective series. Below is a list of Dorothy L. Sayers' books in the order of their original publication.

Dorothy L. Sayers became a published novelist in 1923 with the novel Whose Body?. Below is a list of Dorothy L. Sayers's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Whose Body?	(1923)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Clouds of Witness	(1926)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Unnatural Death	(1927)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lord Peter Views the Body	(1928)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club	(1928)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strong Poison	(1930)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Five Red Herrings	(1931)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Have His Carcase	(1932)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hangman's Holiday	(1933)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder Must Advertise	(1933)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Nine Tailors	(1934)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gaudy Night	(1935)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Busman's Honeymoon	(1937)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In the Teeth of the Evidence	(1939)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Striding Folly	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Thrones, Dominations	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Presumption of Death	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Attenbury Emeralds	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Late Scholar	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Documents In The Case	(1930)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Wimsey Papers	(1939)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Lost Tools of Learning	(1947)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
A Treasury of Sayers Stories	(1958)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Two Plays about God and Man	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Chapbooks Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Emperor Constantine	(1951)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Plays Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Man Born to Be King	(1943)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

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

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
More Anatomy of Murder	(1936)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction	(1948)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Human And Inhuman Stories	(1963)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Nine Detective Stories	(1964)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Scoop and Behind the Screen	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Double Death	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
English Country House Murders	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Crime Never Pays	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Crime Stories Ever Told	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder On The Railways	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction	(2004)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Plough Quarterly No. 18 - The Art of Community	(2018)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bodies from the Library 2	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives	(2025)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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