Ia dikenal atas karya-karya misterinya, serangkaian novel dan cerpen yang berlatar belakang Perang Dunia Pertama dan Kedua yang menampilkan aristokrat dan pemeriksa amatirLord Peter Wimsey yang ditulisnya di novelWhose Body yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1923[3] dan masih populer pada masa sekarang. Namun, Sayers sendiri menganggap terjemahannya dari Divine Comedy karya Dante merupakan karya terbaiknya. Ia juga dikenal atas drama-drama, kritikan sastra dan esai-esai buatannya.
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—, Studies in Sayers: Essays presented to Dr Barbara Reynolds on her 80th Birthday (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) ISBN0-9518000-1-9
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Kenney, Catherine, The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (1990; Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1992) ISBN0-87338-458-X
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Loades, Ann. "Dorothy L. Sayers: War and Redemption." In Hein, David, and Edward Henderson, eds. C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination, pp. 53–70. London: SPCK, 2011.
Nelson, Victoria, L. is for Sayers: A Play in Five Acts (Dreaming Spires Publications, 2012) ISBN0-615-53872-X
Webster, Peter, 'Archbishop Temple's offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L. Sayers'. In: From the Reformation to the Permissive Society. Church of England Record Society (18). Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2010, pp. 565–582. ISBN978-1-84383-558-5. Full text in SAS-Space
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