Words on Wednesday: Binge Reading His Lordship

Current Reading

  A few weeks ago, i included, two in one book club edition Wimsey novels.  And about that time,
my father in law gave me the Sayers-PatonWalsh / PatonWalsh ones above. So, since then i've continued with others on our shelves.

...and these. . .

  A comment about the authors

 Before i list my recent reading order, i would like to comment on how these differ. As many others have noticed, the Harriet stories have a different flavor than the earlier ones.  Myself, i think the ones with Harriet are better, but there are others who passionately believe that she ruins the stories.
  At any rate, there is more of a difference between with and without Harriet than there is between Sayers alone or Sayers with her continuing author.  (In this, Jill Paton Walsh succeeds better than Sophie Hannah, who has continued Poirot stories.)

Stories read in this current binge

  Below i've listed a few sites which put these stories in chronological order for us.
But, before the links, i will list the order of my reading, as best i can remember.

• Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
• Clouds of Witness
• Five Red Herrings
• Murder Must Advertise, the last current read of the 2in1s
• The Attenbury Emeralds
• Presumption of Death
• Strong Poison, in which we meet Harriet Vane
• Have His Carcase* 
• Busman's Honeymoon
• and, currently, The Nine Tailors and 
• Lord Peter, the complete story collection.

Continuing the binge. . . .

  Soon i will begin Gaudy Night, one of my favorites, and maybe go through the story collections published in Sayers' lifetime, which include stories with and without His Lordship.
  In the house, we have Documents in the Case / The Dawson Pedigree, though i may not read it this go-around.  The case begins with Lord Peter and his friend, the policeman Charles Parker, just talking, and they decide to investigate a case which has seemed to not be a case.  Several murders later, we have a murderer who - is, well, sympathetic, and who may well have only killed the one time if the young busydodies hadn't decided to unravel the puzzle.
  Jill PatonWalsh has done a terrific job with the characters.  i will probably have to get my hands on Thrones, Dominations again (was it a library copy or one my father in law hasn't yet decided to clear out?), and her newest, The Late Scholar, which i've not yet seen .

Links to the Lord Peter books in published order

https://www.novelsuspects.com/series-list/the-lord-peter-wimsey-series-books-in-order/
https://earlybirdbooks.com/dorothy-sayers-and-lord-peter-wimsey
The two above include cover photos from a particular recent series of them  - love those covers, not shopping for them just because.   Each has an opening paragraph, but one ends with Sayers' own work and the other continues with PatonWalsh's.
 And the link below includes the short stories also, though not the more recent PatonWalsh contributions.

http://lordpeter.org/corpus/internal.php



 *In Have His Carcase, the victim has had his throat cut.  If you're curious as to how this edition placed him on the cover, you might want to quickly search images for Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers.