The missing scene in Dorothy L. Sayers Whose Body?
In the following article, I will expose an investigation I carried out about censorship and how it affected British Crime Fiction of the early 20th century, most particularly author Dorothy L. Sayers. This investigation arose from the discovery of a completely removed scene in the very first book of her Lord Peter Wimsey series, Whose Body? This article is divided into several sections. After the introduction, I offer some context about who Dorothy L. Sayers was and how her works were received in the Spanish market. Further on, I talk about censorship in Spain and how it worked. Lastly, I expose my investigation with a quick summary of the information available in the AGA (Archivo General de la Administración), a brief context of the missing scene and I offer a way for it to be reworked into the text with an acceptance that it was, indeed, censored.
Authors
- M. Martínez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1444-0651)
Institutions
- Universitat de València (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Estudis Filològics i de Traducció
- Published
- 2025-10-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7203/efit.2.30248
- Primary Topic
- Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00