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Dorothy Leigh Sayers ['sɛ:ə̯z], auch: [ˈseiəz] war eine englische Schriftstellerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin. Ihre Kriminalromane, die scharfsinnige, einfühlsame Milieuschilderungen der 1920er- und 1930er-Jahre enthalten, haben ihren Ruf als eine der herausragenden „British Crime Ladies“ begründet.

Ihr Werk war zum Zeitpunkt ihres Todes weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten. Wiederentdeckt wurde es zunächst im Rahmen der Frauenbewegung der späten 1960er Jahre. Eine Verarbeitung ihrer Lord-Peter-Wimsey-Romane für eine Fernsehserie, die die BBC zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre produzierte und ab 1973 ausstrahlte, machte sie einem weiten Leserkreis erneut bekannt. Diese Romane gelten heute als wichtige Werke der klassischen Detektivgeschichte, wie sie vor allem von britischen Autoren im Zeitraum zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen verfasst wurden.

Die britische Zeitung The Guardian nahm 2009 zwei ihrer Kriminalromane, nämlich Der Tote in der Badewanne und Mord braucht Reklame in die Liste der tausend Romane auf, die jeder gelesen haben sollte. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Juni 1893 – 17. Dezember 1957  •  Andere Namen 도르시 L 세이어스, دوروتی ال. سایرز
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“Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

“Miss de Vine: [In response to Harriet Vane's, "But you say you don't despise those who make some other person their job?"] "Far from despising them, I think they are dangerous."”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

“The Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly—but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry? No crooked table legs or ill-fitting drawers ever came out of the carpenter's shop at Nazareth. Nor, if they did, could anyone believe that they were made by the same hand that made Heaven and earth.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Essays, Why Work? (1942)

“Harriet Vane: If anybody does marry you it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Strong Poison

Strong Poison (1930)

“Lord Peter Wimsey: It’s my belief most of us would only be too pleased to chuck these community hysterics if the beastly newspapers didn’t run it for all it’s worth. However, it won’t do to say so. (on Remembrance Day observances)”

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Dorothy L. Sayers

The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club (1928)

“Lord Peter Wimsey: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it – that is at the bottom of the ψευδῆ λέγειν ὡς δεῖ.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)
Quelle: From Aristotle's Poetics: the right way to tell lies.

“Mr. Ingleby: You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Murder Must Advertise

Murder Must Advertise (1933)

“Lord Peter Wimsey: Your mother, Bunter? Oh, I never knew you had one. I always thought you just sort of came along already-made, so it were.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness (1926)

“Freddie Arbuthnot*: "…mild old gentlemen do sometimes break out into a spot of tut-tuttery."”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Gaudy Night

Gaudy Night (1936)

“Sir Impey Biggs: Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers buch Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness (1926)

“What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Essays, Are Women Human? (1938)

“Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.”

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Essays, The Psychology of Advertising (1937)

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