Also popular were the stories featuring Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

* Dorothy L. Sayers's Unnatural Death ( 1927 ), one of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels

The storyline of his novel, The Search, is referenced in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night, and is used to help elicit the criminal's motive.

* In his written confession, the murderer in Dorothy Sayers's Whose Body?

* Dorothy L. Sayers's Have His Carcase ( 1932 ) and Busman's Honeymoon ( 1937 )

Perhaps the most notable examples are Robert Pinsky's version of the Inferno, Laurence Binyon's version of the entire Divina Commedia, Dorothy L. Sayers's and the recent version by Peter Dale.

The strong relation between Lord Darcy and Master Sean O ' Lochlainn in some ways recalls that between Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey and his servant Mervyn Bunter.

There is also a reference to this in Dorothy Sayers's novels The Nine Tailors ( chapter entitled The Second Course ; " He turned to his right, knowing that it is unlucky to walk about a church widdershins, ...") and Clouds of Witness (" True, O King, and as this isn't a church, there's no harm in going round it widdershins ").

Mithridatism has been used as a plot device in novels, films, video games, and TV shows including, among others, Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Rappaccini's Daughter ", Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Ninja Scroll, Dorothy Sayers's Strong Poison, Agatha Christie's Curtain, William Goldman's The Princess Bride ( and the movie of the same name ).

He played Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 ), and he later played Bunter, the valet of Lord Peter Wimsey, in the BBC's productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night ( all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels ).

She has said that she based Clare and Henry's romance on the " cerebral coupling " of Dorothy Sayers's characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.

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.

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.

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.

* 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

* 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.

* Dorothy L. Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey books and translator of Dante's Divina Commedia.

In 1977 C. W. Scott-Giles, an expert in heraldry, published a history of Lord Peter Wimsey's family, going back to 1066 ( but describing the loss of the family tree going back to Adam and Eve ); the book is based on material from his correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers, who wrote at least two of the family anecdotes in the book, one of them in the French language of the Middle Ages.

Murder Must Advertise is a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, published in 1933.

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

In Five Red Herrings ( 1931 ), a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter ( a Balliol man ) is asked whether he remembers a certain contemporary from Trinity.

In Five Red Herrings ( 1931 ), a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter ( a Balliol man ) is asked whether he remembers a certain contemporary from Trinity.

The Lord Chief Justice married Dorothy, the daughter of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre Hall, Outwell / Upwell, Norfolk, Speaker of the House of Commons 1572 – 1576.

is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey.

Clouds of Witness is a 1926 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the second in her series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Unnatural Death is a 1927 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her third featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Strong Poison is a 1930 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.

Have His Carcase is a 1932 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her seventh featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and her second novel in which Harriet Vane appears.

It starred Lila Kedrova as Madame Armfeldt, Dorothy Tutin as Desiree Armfeldt, Peter McEnery as Fredrick, and Susan Hampshire.

Although a majority of distributism's later supporters were not Catholics and many were in fact former radical socialists who had become disillusioned with socialism ; distributist thought was adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities.

In the 1930 federal census, Elizabeth Weissmüller, age 49, has listed with her, her sons John P. and Peter J., and Peter's wife Dorothy.

It was to overshadow Peter Hall's 1978 production with Albert Finney as Macbeth and Dorothy Tutin as Lady Macbeth.

* John M. Gilbreth ( May 29, 1919 – December 25, 2002 ) ( age 83 ); married Dorothy Girvan ; three children ( Peter Gilbreth, James Gilbreth, Deborah ).

Working with her Catholic Worker Movement, he began his commitment to social justice, and would one day go on to play Peter Maurin, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement, in Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.

The current members of the parish council are: Jude Bissett, Bruce Corke, Peter Floyd, Judith Gray, Jane Hale, Dorothy Jones, Sarah Morris, Calvin Stubbs, Margaret Wallace, Linda Wilson & Stuart Wilson.

Dorothy E. Denning, assisted by Peter G. Neumann, published a model of an IDS in 1986 that formed the basis for many systems today.

Members of the Borough Council are Peter Cammarano ( 2014 ), Ronald Grayzel ( 2012 ), John J. Muldoon ( 2014 ), Dorothy Rasmussen ( 2013 ), Sheri-Rose Rubin ( 2012 ) and James Wallace ( 2013 ).