So, it’s happened again: I’ve fallen for another detective. Barbara Havers, Cormoran Strike, Kinsey Millhone, Darren Mathews and Jackson Brodie will just have to step aside — for now, anyway — to make ...

PW: How does your second posthumous collaboration with Dorothy Sayers, A Presumption of Death, differ from your first? Jill Paton Walsh: With Thrones, Dominations, I was working in the dark with a ...

In Gaudy Night, the penultimate Peter Wimsey novel, Sayers returns her attention to Lord Peter’s beloved Harriet Vane—almost to the exclusion of Peter himself. As with Have His Carcase, I first read ...

A curse might be that a male gets what he thinks he wants. If all men are mortal, as the logical syllogism asserts, then another assertion might be that most mortal men do not know what they want.

One thing British mystery-lovers ought to know about fictional sleuths: Wherever they go, murder follows. So why would the amateur investigator Lord Peter Wimsey and his mystery-author bride Harriet ...

Walsh triumphantly follows 2003's A Presumption of Death, inspired by some letters Dorothy Sayers wrote depicting Peter Wimsey during WWII, with a wholly original interpretation of Sayers's golden age ...

Amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey is to be married to crime novelist Harriet Vane, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so that they both promise not to get involved with any ...

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a ...