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ReviewArts
Ghost Story podcast review — addictive tale of murder and haunting
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
October 30, 2023
ReviewTravel books
Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
May 12, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
OutlookSimon Kuper
Fay Weldon’s death is a reminder of advertising’s golden age
...The future detective novelist Dorothy L Sayers, as a copywriter in London from 1922 until 1931, created the undying Guinness ad starring a toucan: “If he can say as you can / Guinness is good for you / How...
January 9, 2023
ReviewCrime books
Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
June 13, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Walter Sickert — British modernism’s man of mystery
...“Self-portrait: The Bust of Tom Sayers”, standing between a popular boxer’s bulky statue and a delicate porcelain vase reminiscent of Whistler, celebrates conflicting interests....
April 28, 2022
ReviewCrime books
How to Solve a Crime by Dr Angela Gallop — a forensic eye for detail
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
February 24, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Private equity
Inside private equity’s race to go public
...European firms CVC Capital Partners and Ardian and US-based L Catterton have all had conversations with advisers about potential initial public offerings, people with knowledge of the talks said....
January 10, 2022
Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
Will writing: a case of whodunnit or haven’t done it yet?
...Sayers’ Unnatural Death and Christie’s Peril at End House for two gripping examples)....
January 7, 2021
ReviewNon-Fiction
Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends
...Headed by Dorothy L Sayers — who would go on to become the renowned crime writer and creator of the beloved aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey — they called themselves the Mutual Admiration Society (MAS...
November 29, 2019
HTSI
Inside Isabel Ettedgui’s 15th-century ‘playground’
...Sayers and Agatha Christie novels....
November 6, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
Square Haunting by Francesca Wade — women who defied prejudice
...Dorothy L Sayers, the crime novelist, was there for a year, Woolf for less than a year and Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and translator, for two years....
January 10, 2020
ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, historian Eileen Power and — who could avoid her?...
January 3, 2020
Letter
Fear and loathing at the Chamber of Commerce
...This is recounted in L S Pressnell’s marvellously thorough documentation of that sovereign debt crisis, Essays in Money and Banking in honour of RS Sayers....
October 2, 2017
Nilanjana Roy
Diamonds are forever
...Sayers, who wrote in her 1944 foreword: “The Moonstone is impeccable . . ....
January 12, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Conclave by Robert Harris review — holy smoke
...The suspects gather in an enclosed space — Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, Dorothy L Sayers’ Bellona Club, or even JK Rowling’s Hogwarts. They cannot wander out or establish their alibis....
October 7, 2016
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918’, by DJ Taylor
...Dorothy Sayers, for example, always anxious about being labelled middlebrow by snobbish critics, mocks this world in detective novels such as Strong Poison (1930) and Gaudy Night (1935)....
January 8, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Yellow Diamond’, by Andrew Martin
...A generalist who sniffs around society haunts can dig up intriguing clues, as Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot demonstrated....
December 4, 2015
World
Old Masters enjoy revival among collectors
...The Colnaghi gallery will be offering an important rediscovery — “The Sayer Family of Richmond 1781”, an exceptional painting by Johan Zoffany, a favoured painter of King George III....
June 25, 2015
Life & Arts
Oxford Literary Festival highlights
...The lane is famous as the scene of the first kiss between two of literature’s greatest detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, creations of my favourite crime author Dorothy L Sayers....
March 14, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Unspectacular vernacular
...In his introduction, James upbraids Dorothy L Sayers for her 1949-62 Penguin Classics translation of Dante....
August 30, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Cinema reviews: A Late Quartet, Spring Breakers, Thursday Till Sunday and more
...No wonder, with this film, the nay-sayers still hold out....
April 4, 2013
Life & Arts
The Diary: AN Wilson
...My talk was held in the University Women’s Club in South Audley Street – which Dorothy L Sayers made into the town house of Lord Peter Wimsey....
May 20, 2011
ReviewLife & Arts
The Attenbury Emeralds
...Sherlock Holmes has led the way as a successful brand, and now Dorothy L Sayers’ sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey has been reborn....
September 27, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
...Otherwise, here is an enjoyable book guaranteed to appeal to those who have never got over the death of Dorothy L Sayers. (The schedulers of Sunday night TV might also take a look.)...
December 12, 2009
Life & Arts
Small Talk: Audrey Niffenegger
...Dorothy L Sayers, Richard Powers, Susanna Clarke. Do you have a writing routine? No, it’s completely chaotic. I’m very undisciplined....
September 25, 2009

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