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 ...

This chapter explains the methods of the amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and how they can be applied to debugging software. This section begins by reviewing the life and character of Lord Peter. It ...

There are several ways for a writer to startle the reader at the end of a mystery. The most overused is "the least likely suspect" solution, a variant being found in an early Ellery Queen novel when a ...

Jill Paton Walsh, read by Edward Petherbridge, AudioGo, unabridged, eight CDs, 8 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-148-8 Walsh's interpretation of the classic characters of Dorothy L. Sayers labors under ...

Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter’s brother.

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 ...

Just before copywriter Victor Dean fell to his death, he wrote to his supervisors at Pym's Publicity Ltd., hinting at improprieties within the agency. Concerned, the company's top brass hires Lord ...

For decades I have been a fan of the mystery (or crime and detective genre) both in print and on the screen. Therefore I thought I might delve into some of my favorites to review. Many of the best ...

Dorothy L. Sayers, to many the quintessential British mystery writer, is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the quintessentially aristocratic sleuth who tootles along to murder scenes in ...

“THE LATE SCHOLAR,” by Jill Paton Walsh. Minotaur Books. 356 pages. $25.99. Lovers of Dorothy Sayers may rejoice that Lord Peter Wimsey is back, in three books by Jill Paton Walsh — “A Presumption of ...