Sayers

[Amy Z]

- Joy - wrote:

> Which Peter Wimsey novel comes first?  I'm adding Sayers to my 
(looong)
> reading list, but I want to do it "right".  Thanks!

_Whose Body?_ is the first, though unfortunately not the best.  Carry 
on; if you aren't in love with Peter by the end of that one, the 
second one, _Clouds of Witness_, will have you hooked or else you 
should have someone check you for a pulse.  

You'll have to excuse me.  I've only ever had a serious crush on two 
fictional characters, and Lord Peter was the first; finishing the 
last of the stories at around 15 and knowing that that was the last 
I'd ever read of him threw me into a mild depression.  I should add, 
in case you do not succumb to the charms of the main character, that 
Sayers is also a fantastic writer, which is supposed to be the point 
of reading.  (I should also warn that she is very occasionally 
anti-Semitic and, on one notable occasion, anti-gay.  I hate to say 
it, and hate even more to read it, but it's true.)

Sayers wrote short stories, too, and all the ones featuring Wimsey are 
collected in _Lord Peter_.  I don't know when in the chronology the 
first one appeared.

Amy Z