The Footsteps That Ran by Dorothy L. Sayers

Step into the intriguing world of Dorothy L. Sayers' "The Footsteps That Ran." Set within the confines of 24 Great James Street, London, this gripping tale follows the discerning detective Lord Peter Wimsey as he grapples with a puzzling mystery. The echoing footsteps from the room above become a perplexing clue in this riveting narrative, guiding Wimsey along a path fraught with suspense and intrigue. With Sayers' masterful storytelling and keen eye for detail, listeners are in for a captivating journey filled with twists and turns. Experience the thrill of discovery as you join Lord Peter Wimsey on his quest to unravel the secrets hidden within "The Footsteps That Ran."
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Show Notes Are Here:
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Music is The Black Cat by Aaron Kenny
00:00:00 Starts
00:00:12 The Footsteps That Ran
00:38:24 Commentary
00:49:48 End

[@classicdetective]

The comments below contain spoilers. Don't read them if you don't want to know who done it.

[@thurayya8905]

Thank you for reminding me about Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Whimsey. I am at the point where I want to go back and reread the novels and authors I enjoyed in my twenties and compare outlooks.

[@cathygould]

I've loved these for many decades, both the books and audiobooks and radio and TV versions👍🏽❣️📚

[@deekeller9562]

So glad you took on D. L. Sayers and Lord Peter. Please more, much more.

[@cathygould]

Excellent narration! You got his drawl and casual dropped Gs 👍🏽❣️📚 Sayers is a fascinating woman, especially for her time. She was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and their rich correspondence is wonderful ❣️

[@redshadowlady]

She has always been one of my favorite authors. Thank you for reading this one! 😊

[@hopscotchtop]

I absolutely love Lord Peter. Thank you for the reading!

[@classicdetective]

I’m glad you liked it

[@daftirishmarej1827]

Thank you for a believable Lord Peter. He used to get on my nerves until i listened to Ian Carmichael and he brought him to life. Yes, RP is different to the Queen's (King's?) English. Sayers is a real wordsmith. I love her whodunnits too. Especially The Daughter of Time. She thinks it through so well. Love your blackbird!

[@Story-Voracious66]

I love the Blackbird too. 😊❤️

[@daftirishmarej1827]

@@hannahreynolds7611 Sorry, brain fart. They're next to each other on my bookcase 😁😁

[@dianal.clausen8118]

​@@hannahreynolds7611 Hello Hannah, always appreciate recommendations from fellow readers. Will.check each out. Regards from Chicago where it has turned beautifully green.

[@wordsculpt]

​@@daftirishmarej1827You can always recognise a fellow reader (as opposed to people who just display books ) when they organise by genre. Kudos!

[@angelah2083]

Daughter of Time is Josephine Tey - also good, but not DLS.

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Tony, another fantastic story!! I always come for the story and stay for the after review. Love your various voices and your commentary!! Dont let the uneducated trolls get you down.

[@martiwilliams4592]

Delightful narration,Tony.Sayers is one of my favorites.Such fun! Love your accents, voices and entertaining, informative comments. More Lord Peter, please. You're the best, Tony. thanks so very much!!!!!!

[@MrsJanLong]

Love a bit of Wimsey, and I can't recall hearing this one before. Thank you!

[@classicdetective]

Thanks for listening

[@MaggieatPlay]

Yay! A Lord Whimsey story. Well narrated, Tony. I enjoyed all the different voices.

[@lunarbloom3587]

Thanks Tony! Great narration and commentary as always 😊

[@boosqueezy2418]

just wanted to say that i really appreciate your commentary. it’s quite enjoyable and i look forward to it in every video

[@carolduvall111]

Great story, and you did a fantastic job narrating it😊❤

[@classicdetective]

Thank you so much!

[@elaineedgar2913]

The trouble is once you’ve listened to the real thing, full cast dramas, this is not my thing. Thanks anyway?

[@flapjackfae]

Loved hearing this, even though I knew it too well for any suspense. A small thing- You might read Lord Peter a bit quicker. He's flippant, he prattles, making everyone (save Bunter) think he's a thoughtless twit, the way everyone views Miss Marple as an addled old busybody. Your upper class drawl, though, is impeccable! If you enjoyed being Wimsey, by all means, do more!

[@lesleykaygosson315]

I enjoyed this story. Haven't read any Dorothy Sayers in forever. Thank You. Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️

[@classicdetective]

Thank you

[@57trensota75]

Thank you! I thought I had read alll the Lord Peter Whimsy stories over and over, but this one was entirely new to me, I think.

[@sonnetlikely]

I could listen to you doing different accents and dialects all day- absolutely fascinating! Great tale and fantastic performance as always!

[@classicdetective]

Thank you. As you know I love to do tj

[@user-wv2tl2yh9k]

I so enjoyed!!!!! THIS🥰 I just found this and wow!!! 😊 I recognized your voice🥳. I listen to your Ghost Stories! This is great💐 thank you!!

[@clarahalfin399]

Hey...That sounds like Tony Walker! Great Narration!

[@classicdetective]

It is!

[@clarahalfin399]

@@classicdetective Wonderful! My Gram read me old classics like Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and made a British Mystery lover of me…Thanks for all your efforts!

[@sus8e462]

Nicely done! Has been many years since I've read any DL Sayers, but I don't recall this one! A nice surprise, but would still have been a delight hearing your interpretation if I did recall it!

[@classicdetective]

Many thanks!

[@footfault]

Thank you for doing the impossible, making Wimsey less fatuous and foppish. My day's ration of endurance ran out, however, before the video did. DLS is not my cup of tea at all.

[@Story-Voracious66]

Loved it Tony, you never disappoint! Thank you. Love the chat, always, and have to say that I am quite the Simon Roper fan. (Just aside I have spent some of the morning listening to old Suffolk accents). You did Lord Peter justice, I could only substitute yours with Tim Curry's Nigel Thornberry, but only for sentimental reasons. I must though for once stand up for the common Police Officer though, I have known quite a few; they are in my family, and get a bally raw deal in Detective stories. Not fair! It's a thankless job sometimes. So I for one say hooray for the hard working PCs and Sargeants. 👮🏽‍♀️ 👮🏼 🕵🏻‍♀️🕵🏾

[@classicdetective]

No, no it's all fine. With well known stories there are often favourite narrators and you hear them in their voices. I still am moved to do them. I'm not sure that I got Lord Peter actually. There are people with genuine toff accents that should probably do him and I'll stick to the gritty working-class detectives! Though I do like doing my Sherlock Holmes drawl.

[@Story-Voracious66]

Oh please don't think that I wasn't totally impressed by your Whimsy, I was just being nostalgic about poor old Tom. Never stop with your accents, it really does help to differentiate characters. 👍😊

[@kathleenellenford4816]

Thank you!!

[@classicdetective]

You're welcome!

[@claracarpenter8913]

The big clue at the beginning was when the husband was first putting on a show about the crime to his neighbors, he said her lover did it, then he didn't repeat that in subsequent ramblings. That gave away his jealous motive. I enjoyed the discussion of pronunciation at the end.

[@roringusanda2837]

😮 i listened to this at 1.25 speed and it feels more right!

[@classicdetective]

Whatever works for you

[@denisemarshall2432]

I enjoyed your reading of that, and your analysis....I have been reading her books, along with Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh's books for many years, and have read them all several times..( why do we cheerfully listen to a piece of favorite music repeatedly, and yet most people don't re- read books??). I love the quality of their writing, the pictures they paint with the words, and enjoy them without suffering nightmares as one does with the modern 'psychological thrillers' ( my God, why is being haunted by dreadful scenes entertaining? Some of them you would need counseling afterwards). Having recently discovered Richard Osmans 'Thursday Murder Club' , they have such delightful whinsy and intelligence, and am hopeful that I may get to read some different books finally. Do please do more of these. I can't remember if Ngaio Marsh did short stories, but she wrote a huge number of books, a lot of which have not appeared as yet as audio versions. Cheers. Denise in New Zealand.

[@classicdetective]

I agree. I don't like grisly murder stories. Usually murder's the least of it these days. It seems they have to dredge the most revolting and upsetting things out of human society. I used to work in Safeguarding and I saw enough of the degradation that people inflict on others in real life for me ever to want to read about it.

[@ajcbng8289]

YIPPEE! ❤ Thank you.

[@candysleep314]

Tony, I really enjoyed the story and commentary. I do love language and appreciate your info on accents and such! Earlier today I watched the trailer for "Firebrand," the latest Tudor drama. [Tangent Alert]. In the trailer, Katharine Parr says to Henry VIII, "I'm sure you would come up with something far more creative." This was circa 1545. Hmmm, seemed a little fishy. I checked the online OED. The adjective 'creative' didn't come into use until the 1670s, and referred to the power of creation. Only in 1848 is it starting to be used in relation to the arts, approximating our current usage. Then I checked on the phrase 'to come up with.' This was first used in print (with it's current meaning) by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. This is as annoying as the beehive hairdos in Bonanza! I mean, couldn't they just use AI and check the script for bald-faced anachronisms? Anyhoo. A bit of trivia.

[@classicdetective]

I wouldn’t trust AI to tell the truth about anything! It’s hard writing a historical pastiche. There’s so much to get wrong . many historical series on TV these days even if it’s just setting me 1940s or 50s use wrong sounding language and my biased view is that the young people who are writing these lines don’t know that people didn’t always speak like they do with all their circle back and reach out.

[@grimtt]

Y’all are my kind of people! 😂 bugs me when they pay such attention to costume and scenery but use very anachronistic language. I love the sites where you can look up and find out when specific words first appeared in print. Of course for some time periods writers have to use modern language since if they did it the way it was spoken in Tudor days we might have to turn on the subtitles….

[@fishing4comedy2day]

And don't forget The Tiffany Problem!

[@catmazza2351]

Good one!

[@shelleymcafee8197]

That WAS fun, Thank-You! I’m glad You discussed the dialect with which LW’s speech is sprinkled, I was thinking it was a lower-class slang popular at the time (as Eliza’s speech was thought to be in My Fair Lady - the scene at Ascot); interesting to learn about the actual source, I too find the ongoing flow and evolution of Language fascinating! *If You haven’t read it, for Your Own interest I recommend reading the actual diary/book upon which the ‘Call the Midwife’ tv-series is based. The Author/Midwife who wrote it of her experiences was also fascinated by language/usage/pronunciation, in particular by the Cockney rhyming-slang which she discusses in great detail - in the latter part of her book. Great stuff, it really opened My ‘eyes’ (Lol, ears?) to the different patterns of pronunciation found in languages/dialects everywhere… and how One really can’t perceive them clearly until We actually pronounce/speak the words in the appropriate way, instead of merely (visually) reading them. The way We hold/use Our tongue/lips/mouth/teeth(…) is really unique, between languages and dialects! Lol; anyway - Thanks again!

[@classicdetective]

I haven't read the Call The Midwife. It was my mum's favourite, she having been a midwife in the 1960s. I have a record of her cases. Quite eye opening stuff. But it is interesting how we will listen to music and even read a poem multiple times. Children of course have their favourite stories they never tire of. I wonder why adults grow out of it.

[@shelleymcafee8197]

@@classicdetective My Mum and I enjoy the series, too. Do We? Lol; maybe it depends on how many books are available to Us. Now that so many options are available via internet, I tend to repeat less it’s true - but do have favourites that I revisit periodically. (When I was limited to what was physically in My bookshelf, I reread them all every year. Maybe that makes a difference?). 😉

[@SunnySmile-fr5yg]

Great narration and great commentary, as always

[@classicdetective]

I appreciate that

[@grimtt]

Love DLS, Tony! Tho I was thinking her writing might be hard to declaim due to the dialogue, you did well!!

[@classicdetective]

Thanks!

[@mwatts-riley2688]

To realize this story is really 100yrs old! That's hard to think of, really. 📚. M. IL

[@classicdetective]

nearly as old as me

[@evelanpatton]

Such a short end but I think it’s in the character of this channel of yours; luckily for us, it is not the deep dives on the ghost channel- those are just lovely. This one short & sweet but still maintaining the interesting facts & pinions of the writer’s engine. Beep beep!

[@classicdetective]

I'm deliberately keeping the commentaries short on this one.

[@furrypurry]

.. I still use meat dripping when roasting meat. Do enjoy a bit of DLS, and that was an excellent diversion from the ghost stories. I have subbed to both now.

[@classicdetective]

Thank you very much

[@jeremypearson6852]

Don’t think I’ve heard this one before. I’m old enough to have watched Whimsey in 70’s with Ian Carmichael, so I always associate him with the character. Some people can find his voice annoying after a while. It’s quite interesting how the UK produced so many great detective writers. An expat listening in Florida.

[@markrossow6303]

Yes, Simon Roper on accents and "RobWords"

[@boosqueezy2418]

i solved this one right away!

[@classicdetective]

I’ll read a harder one next time

[@lisap.1826]

I enjoyed the accents! Imagine the horror of having to answer your own door 🤭! Old timey posh people are ridiculous smh!

[@classicdetective]

unthinkable! answering one’s own door! that’s what the footman is for

[@gilllongano5360]

A little editing, adding some pauses. Really hard to work out who is speaking when🤦🏼‍♀️

[@classicdetective]

Noted. I shall try.

[@maryoleary5044]

Poor Rattie 🥺😞

[@classicdetective]

I know

[@Not00]

Jesus!

[@lunablue745]

Question: if Lord Whimsy is an aristocrat, why is his speech so uneven; such as words like "standing" sounding like "standin"? This is in no way a criticism of your narration, Tony. I think you really animated these characters with your voice. I'm just wonderin why the author chose to write that way. 🤔

[@snowysnowyriver]

In the era that Dorothy L Sayers was writing many in the aristocracy commonly used this style affectation. It was simply the fashion at the time. If you look at the P.G. Wodehouse books, you will find the same thing.

[@flapjackfae]

'It's the new "small talk"!' - Prof. Harold Hill

[@lunablue745]

@@snowysnowyriver Thank you! I was wondering if the author was trying to imitate an Irish accent. I've heard of the writers, but not their work. Bless Tony for being so erudite with that!

[@grimtt]

I believe Tony explains some of this at the very end of the story 🙂

[@snowysnowyriver]

@@lunablue745 Tony is a such a talented narrator. We are so lucky that he keeps these wonderful books alive for us. 😊 With that particular accent though, if you want to hear that affectation at its best, have a listen to Ian Carmichael doing the Wimsey books. He starred in the TV adaptation of some of the books in the early 1970s, and did most of the early audiobooks. Some of his audio books are available here on YT. Ian Carmichael's accent is superb.....helped no doubt by his natural accent which was perfect RP.

[@jamesross5328]

Terrible accent Not prouncing the final g

[@classicdetective]

lol