Some film directors have recorded films based on Dorothy L Sayers’s novels. Here we can find some examples of that filmography, which includes films since 1935 until 2003.
Lord Peter Wimsey – Murder Must Advertise (2003)
Director: Rodney Bennett
Starring: Ian Carmichael
Synopsis: Lord Peter takes up employment as a copywriter for an advertising agency under the pseudonym of 'Death Bredon' (his middle names), investigating the recent death of one of the employees. In the process he finds out what it is like to actually work for a living.
Most of the action takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was very familiar. Many considered this to be the best book of the series, although she herself is said to have considered it something of a failure.
Lord Peter Wimsey – Murder Must Advertise (2003)
Director: Rodney Bennett
Starring: Ian Carmichael
Synopsis: Lord Peter takes up employment as a copywriter for an advertising agency under the pseudonym of 'Death Bredon' (his middle names), investigating the recent death of one of the employees. In the process he finds out what it is like to actually work for a living.
Most of the action takes place in an advertising agency, a setting with which Sayers was very familiar. Many considered this to be the best book of the series, although she herself is said to have considered it something of a failure.
Have His Carcass (1987)
Director: Christopher Hodson
Starring: Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter
Synopsis: Based on the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, this made-for-TV mystery features two of her best-known characters: Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey. Novelist Vane (Harriet Walter) is vacationing after being cleared on charges of murder when she stumbles across the body of a man who has been killed on the beach. The only footprints in the sand besides her own are those of the victim, and Vane is at a loss to explain what has happened. Finding herself a homicide suspect again, Vane calls upon her friend Lord Wimsey (Edward Petherbridge) to help solve the crime, and the two soon find they have stumbled upon a plot involving murder, suicide, and political radicals.
Five Red Herrings (1976)
Director: Robert Tronson
Starring: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston
Synopsis: The Five Red Herrings of the title are among the six suspects in the murder of an artist in the village of Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Whoever killed Campbell also painted a landscape in his style to confuse the time of death, so it had to be one of the six other artists in the village, and they all had reasons for murder. Now Lord Peter Wimsey has to figure out who done it and which are the five red herrings.
This book has a very complex plot and is particularly recommended to those who prefer to have to think about their whodunnits.
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