Whose Body? is Dorothy Leigh Sayers’s first novel as well
as the first of eleven that would feature the amateur detective
Lord Peter Wimsey. Sayers had finished the manuscript in November
1921. After rejections from other houses, it was published in 1923
by Boni and Liveright of New York and by T. Fisher Unwin of London.
It was also serialized by People’s Magazine. The novel met
with favourable reviews and “encouraging enough” sales (Hitchman
62), and was republished first in 1925, marking Sayers’s rise to
fame as a detective fiction writer.
While Sayers had begun her writing career by publishing rather
conventional poetry in the volumes Op.1 (1916) and
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs (…
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Citation:
Martin, Ann. "Whose Body?". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 September 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8781, accessed 25 November 2024.]
