How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Mystery writer and scholar                          

Selected Works:

Poetry:

Op. I -1916
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs -1918

Lord Peter Wimsey novels and short stories:
Whose Body? -1923
Clouds of Witness -1926
Unnatural Death -1927. From the papers held by the Marion Wade Centre, it is clear that Sayers' original title was The Singular Case of the Three Spinsters.
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club -1928
Lord Peter Views the Body -1928 -12 short stories
Strong Poison -1930
Five Red Herrings -1931
Have His Carcase -1932
Hangman's Holiday -1933 -12 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter
Murder Must Advertise -1933
The Nine Tailors -1934
Gaudy Night -1935
Busman's Honeymoon -1937; the play on which it was based, co-written with Muriel St. Clair Byrne, was published in Love All & Busman's Honeymoon, ed. Alzina Stone Dale, 1984
In the Teeth of the Evidence -1939 -18 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter -editions published after 1972 usually adds Talboys, the last story she wrote with Lord Peter

Lord Peter- the Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories -1972 -the first edition contains 20 Lord Peter short stories; the second edition includes all 21 Lord Peter short stories by adding "Talboys".

Sayers on Holmes, Essays and Fiction on Sherlock Holmes, introd. Alzina Stone Dale -2001; Booklet of 54 pages reprinting various Holmesian essays by Sayers, and including a previously unpublished BBC radio script, broadcast in 1954, in which an 8-year-old Lord Peter brings Holmes a problem of a missing cat.

Thrones, Dominations -1998 -This Lord Peter novel was begun by Sayers in 1936, completed by Jill Paton Walsh and published in 1998.
Sayers also wrote the scenario for the film The Silent Passenger -1935, a Lord Peter story which was never published in book form, and whose script was altered greatly by the film company from her original.


Other crime fiction:
The Documents in the Case -1930 written with Robert Eustace
The Floating Admiral -1931 -Written with members of The Detection Club, a chapter each
Ask a Policeman -1933 -Written with members of The Detection Club
Six against the Yard -1936 -Written with members of The Detection Club
The Sultry Tiger -1936 -Originally written under a pseudonym, republished in 1965
Double Death: a Murder Story -1939 -Written with members of The Detection Club
The Scoop and Behind the Screen -1983 -Originally published in The Listener -1931 and -1930, both written by members of The Detection Club
Crime on the Coast and No Flowers by Request -1984 -Written by members of The Detection Club, Sayers takes part in the second, originally published in Daily Sketch -1953
The Travelling Rug -2005 -A previously unpublished short detective story, probably written in the early to middle 1930's, planned as the first in a series to be called The Situations of Judkin. It features a house-maid, Jane Eurydice Judkins. This book contains a printed version of the story, as well as a photographic reproduction of the manuscript in Wheaton College Library.

Dante translations and commentaries:

The Divine Comedy, Part 1: Hell
The Divine Comedy, Part 2: Purgatory
The Divine Comedy, Part 3: Paradise -completed by Barbara Reynolds -
Introductory Papers on Dante: Volume 1: The Poet Alive in His Writings
Further Papers on Dante Volume 2: His Heirs and His Ancestors
The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement Volume 3: On Dante and Other Writers

Essays and non-fiction:

Begin Here -A Wartime Essy Victor Gollancz-1940
Even The Parrot -Exemplary Conversations for Enlightened Children Methuen-1944
The Mind of the Maker -1941 ISBN 0-8371-3372-6
The Lost Tools of Learning -1947 ISBN 978-1-60051-025-0
Unpopular Opinions -1947
Are Women Human? -two essays reprinted from Unpopular Opinions
The Greatest Drama Ever Staged -reprinted from Unpopular Opinions in a series of pocket-sized booklets St Hugh's Press
Creed or Chaos?:Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster -Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe
The Man Born to be King, a cycle of 12 plays on the life of Jesus -1941
Sayers on Holmes
The Whimsical Christian
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French: The Original French Text with an English Translation -ed. and trans. Suzanne Bray, Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2003

Unpublished work:
Smith & Smith Removals: I

Letters:

Five volumes of Sayers' letters have been published, edited by Barbara Reynolds.
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1937-1943, From Novelist to Playwright
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944-1950, A Noble Daring
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957, In the Midst of Life
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time.                          

Mother 
Father Rev. Henry Sayers
Had a child with Bill White, an unemployed motor mechanic. Bill left Dorothy to have the child, John Anthony, by herself. Her parents were to never to know she had a child out of wedlock.
Husband Captain Oswald Atherton Fleming                          

Created characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg.