Dorothy L. Sayers – Cannonball Read 17

Maybe the series gets better?

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

August 13, 2023 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR15 BINGO: Bodies, Bodies because it’s right there in the title (and also because of the dead body) Being on a renewed Agatha Christie kick lately, I thought I’d switch things up a bit and read my first ever Dorothy Sayers, one of the other queens of the Golden Age of Detective fiction. I’d heard about the Lord Peter Wimsey series and thought it sounded right up my alley. I hate to say it, but this novel proved to be quite a slog. The mystery […]

Good Mystery with a Common Theme

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

October 30, 2020 by LanierHgts Leave a Comment

BINGO THE ROARING 20s This is the third Lord Peter Wimsey novel, but it does not matter what order you read them in (although in the first book you get a good sense of Lord Wimsey which helps one to understand who he is and where he is coming from). Basically, he is a bored, rich, second son of a Duke who befriends a Scotland Yard detective and fancies himself an sleuth. Always cleverer than the police, and due to his title he is able […]

If I Had a Dollar for Every Dead Guy I Found In My Tub…

Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers

February 7, 2020 by lumenatrix Leave a Comment

Lord Peter Wimsey is one of those characters that just sort of kept popping up in random places in my life. I think if you are at all into mystery novels you may have had a similar experience. For whatever reason, however, I never actually read one. So, when I hit a point where I didn’t have a book on deck I went to my handy library app and looked up the first one. I really loved it, but it was not at all what […]

Sleepy short stories

In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers

July 24, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of Dorothy L. Sayers’ short mystery/ detective stories, a number of which feature her best known detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, and the rest of which are stand alone tales. I took a Detective Fiction class way back in college, so I had some name recognition for Sayers, but I couldn’t have told you much about her work. This novel brought some of that information back to me- Wimsey and Egg are detectives from […]

Post-Cannonball roundup

The Nine Taylors by Dorothy L. Sayers

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

December 30, 2018 by Aquillia 3 Comments

I actually read more books this year than I have since I can remember. I just don’t have the energy to review them all for various reasons. Last year I did a round-up of all the books I didn’t properly review, and I’d like to do the same now (I’m only counting this review as 1 book read, because even though it’s lots of books, it’s not a full review for each and there’s no overarching theme like I usually do in my multi-book reviews). […]

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