#dorothy l sayers

[fromthedeskofcripslock]

This really ought to top every “Best Opening Lines,” list. The 21st century reading public is sleeping on Dorothy L Sayers.

(Have His Carcase 1932)

[no-where-new-hero]

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (getting tried for my ex-lover’s murder and gaining the attention of a diffident blond with beautiful hands and a monocle who’s certain i’m innocent)

[pricklysplendours]

I am DELIGHTED by this!

[beamorgan]

Congrats DLS, that's an objectively insane way to describe your protagonist on the opening page of book 1

[thesarahshay]

“Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions.” “Jump? You don’t even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion. I believe if you caught the cat with her head in the cream-jug you’d say it was conceivable that the jug was empty when she got there.” “Well, it would be conceivable, wouldn’t it?” “Curse you,” said Lord Peter.

— Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?

[harrietvane]

Accidental pilgrimage today, passing Great James Street (London WC1N 3ES)

Sayers was living at number 24 while working for the advertising agency SH Benson, and here she wrote the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels (info on the house and DLS)

[nobeerreviews]

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

[wrishwrosh]

all gentleman sleuths know is piccadilly, gut instinct, collect antiquarian books, fall in love with accused murderer, eat hot chip and lie