Hercule Poirot and Lord Peter Whimsey ( the respective creations of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers ) have retained Holmes' egotism but not his zest for life and eccentric habits.

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Four female writers of the Golden Age are considered the four original " Queens of Crime ": Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham.

The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.

* 1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer ( b. 1893 )

Much of Dorothy L. Sayers ' writings on social and economic matters has affinity with distributism, although she nowhere identifies herself as a distributist.

Gaudy Night ( 1935 ) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth in her popular series about aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third featuring crime writer Harriet Vane.

Category: Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers

* 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, English author ( d. 1957 )

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries ; usually, but not always, murders.

Dorothy Sayers wrote 11 Wimsey novels and a number of short stories featuring Wimsey and his family.

The three adaptations were transmitted under the title A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery.

* The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion ( 2002 ) by Stephan P. Clarke ISBN 0-89296-850-8 published by The Dorothy L. Sayers Society.

* Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey ( 2000 ) by Robert Kuhn McGregor, Ethan Lewis ISBN 0-87338-665-5

* Extensive review of the Wimsey books in " Second Glance: Dorothy Sayers and the Last Golden Age " by Joanna Scutts

Category: Dorothy L. Sayers characters

Lots of detective stories were written by G. K. Chesterton, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers.

( Dorothy L. Sayers, sometimes claimed as an Inkling, was a friend of Lewis and Williams, but never attended Inklings meetings.

The Marion E. Wade Center, located at Wheaton College, Illinois is devoted to the work of seven British authors including four Inklings and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Other holdings on the seven foremost authors ( G. K. Chesterton, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Inklings Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams ) include letters, manuscripts, audio and video tapes, artwork, dissertations, periodicals, photographs, and related materials.

* Dorothy L. Sayers, essay, " The Lost Tools of Learning ", presented at Oxford, 1947.

A character in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of the Vehmgericht, which allows him to wear a hooded costume to disguise his identity.

* Duke of Denver, the fictional English title of nobility in the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy Sayers

In the mystery novel Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers and its series adaptation by BBC Television, Lord Peter Wimsey solves the case by reference to Manon Lescaut.

The region also figures in works by L. P. Hartley, Arthur Ransome and Dorothy L. Sayers, among many others.

* The Little Giant Of Schenectady, Dorothy Markey, Aladdin Books, 1936.

Three women have won the British Open Championship: Lily Gower in 1905, Dorothy Steel in 1925, 1933, 1935 and 1936, and Hope Rotherham in 1960.

" Young Man with a Horn " ( 1936 ) and " Young Man with a Horn Again " ( 1940 ) in The Otis Ferguson Reader ( Dorothy Wilson and Robert Chamberlain, eds .).

Careless Rapture ran from 11 September 1936 for 296 performances, with Novello, Dorothy Dickson and Zena Dare in the leading roles.

Solanas was born in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis Solanas and Dorothy Biondo in 1936.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Furthermore, in song duets with Astaire, she co-introduced Berlin's " I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket " from Follow the Fleet ( 1936 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's " Pick Yourself Up " and " A Fine Romance " from Swing Time ( 1936 ) and the Gershwins ' " Let's Call the Whole Thing Off " from Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

* He Leadeth Me ( written in collaboration with Dorothy Barker ); Blackie, 1936

In 1936, having married childhood sweetheart Dorothy Mahoney soon after graduating high school, Cole moved with his wife to New York City's Greenwich Village.

Already a preference is heard for the typical chord progression I-vi-IV-V that had generated several American 1930s hits such as Rogers and Hart's " Blue Moon " ( 1934 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields ' 1936 " The Way You Look Tonight " and Hoagy Carmichael's " Heart and Soul " ( 1938 ), but would later become so closely associated with doo-wop that it is now sometimes referred to as the 50s progression.

She was Dorothy Hilton in Call it a Day, again in both London and New York, from 1935 to 1936.

His parents were Dorothy ( Dwyer ) and James Patrick Moran, Sr., a professional football player for the Boston Redskins in 1935 and 1936 ; outside of football he worked as a probation officer.

six children: Dorothy Wear Walker and New York Mets cofounder George Herbert Walker, Jr., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center CEO Dr. John M. Walker, Sr. ( father of Judge John M. Walker, Jr .), James Wear Walker, Nancy Walker, and Louis Walker ( S & B 1936 ).

In 1936, he married Dorothy Goodwin Dent, one of the " Maids of Cotton ," whom he met prior to these events.

* Dorothy Kilgallen and Herb Shapiro, Girl Around the World ( David McKay Publishing, 1936 )

Brent also played opposite Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street ( 1933 ), Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil ( 1934 ), Ginger Rogers in In Person ( 1935 ), Madeleine Carroll in The Case Against Mrs. Ames ( 1936 ), Jean Arthur in More Than a Secretary ( 1936 ), Myrna Loy in Stamboul Quest ( 1934 ) and The Rains Came ( 1939 ), Merle Oberon in ' Til We Meet Again ( 1940 ), Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three ( 1941 ), Joan Fontaine in The Affairs of Susan ( 1945 ), Barbara Stanwyck in The Purchase Price ( 1932 ), Baby Face ( 1933 ), The Gay Sisters ( 1942 ) and My Reputation ( 1946 ), Claudette Colbert in Tomorrow Is Forever ( 1946 ), Dorothy McGuire in The Spiral Staircase ( 1946 ), Lucille Ball in Lover Come Back ( 1946 ) and Yvonne De Carlo in Slave Girl ( 1947 ).

* Dorothy Paget – Golden Miller ( 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936 ), Roman Hackle ( 1940 ), Mont Tremblant ( 1952 )

Swing Time is a 1936 RKO musical comedy film set mainly in New York City and stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Eric Blore and Georges Metaxa, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields.

Harold appeared in more than 50 feature films, including The Big Broadcast ( 1936 ), Down Argentine Way ( 1940 ), Tin Pan Alley ( 1940 ), and Sun Valley Serenade ( 1941 ) which features the show stopping Chattanooga Choo Choo tap dance number performed by Harold, Fayard, and Dorothy Dandridge.

In 1936 he divorced his first wife and married Dorothy Rudge Roberts ; they had two children.

In 1936 Buttram married Dorothy McFadden and adopted a daughter with her named Gayle but they divorced in 1946.

Jill Dorothy Ireland ( 24 April 1936 – 18 May 1990 ) was an English actress, best known for her many films with her second husband, Charles Bronson.