DLS + JKR = love
This is an incomplete and irregularly updated index of HP fics, scenes, and discussions containing allusions to or from the works of Dorothy L. Sayers (some faint, some marked).
[* = a personal favorite]
* ajhalluk - Lust Over Pendle series (superbly indexed by geoviki) (NL/DM)
busaikko - Even The Moon (SS/RL). Echoes two lines from Gaudy Night.
- The Waltz Continues (SS/RL). From the author's notes: "Sayers, Pratchett, and Bujold: I owe them much."
- Legacy (RL/NT). Also influenced by Alcott.
catrinella - "Like the dew I begot you" (Dumbledore & Lord Peter) and other stories in placet.
copperbadge - Wolves At the Door (gen; incomplete)
Cartographer's Craft - chapter 32 features a Ted Tonks whom the author characterizes in his summary as "Sayersian" (Lupin/Tonks and other pairings)
cordelia_v - Draco Vs. Lord Peter Wimsey (essay)
ellid - full series ("Motherless Child") archived at ellidfics - includes:
Truth (RL/PW)
New York Minute (SS/RL)
Ghost Story (SS/RL)
* Knowledge of Desire (SS/RL)
Handel with Care (SS/RL)
"Flourish" - Otherwise Known As Hermione Granger (SS/HG)
"Harriet Vane" - Dancing in Your Shadow (HG/DM, GinnyW/SF). Extended allusions to Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon, but not a happy fic.
"Hecate" - Words Beguile Him and A Game of Chess
hilarita - There is Pansies. That's For Thoughts (NL)
"Isis" - Salvation (SS/DM) - brief description of Snape's bookshelves in chapter 4
* jamoche Untitled (Aftermath) (NL/DM - part of the LoPverse)
lordpeter - character journal, milliways_bar RPG. Some of the older entries are Peter Wimsey/Remus Lupin.
* marginaliana - Another Year
me - Between Night and Dawn (SS/RL; NT/GinnyW)
Not Removed (SS/RL)
Vamping the History Department, Right and Left (SS/RL)
Placet and related stories (SS/RL, Granger/Sinistra, Molly & Bunter, and others)
The Hounding of the Baskervilles (SS/RL)
"Peacock Harpy" - Changes (LE/JP)
* Untitled: A Harry Potter RPG - the major pairing so far is BW/DM. Draco gave Ginny a copy of Gaudy Night on her eighteenth birthday.
I am aware of (but have not yet read):
"aashby" (a/k/a theatresm) - Chaos Is Come Again (HG/SS) and Brave New World
"Flourish" - What Little Things Remain (HG/SS)
"DrT" - Training and Confrontations (H/L/Hr tale, with N/G, R/T; 53 chapters)
"GryffindorTower" - Blaise Zabini and the Magical Cat and several other series
"Angua9" - Harry Potter and the Fifth Year From Hell (R/H)
Natasha Simonova - Here Then At Home and "The Perilous Point" (SS/OFC)
Other:
It was noted in a couple of fanforums earlier this year that the bookshelf-qua-links page on Rowling's official website includes two volumes with "Dorothy L. Sayers" printed on their spines. The print is blurred, but if I had to guess, I'd say they were copies of In the Teeth of the Evidence.
In part 2 of an interview on HBP publication day, Rowling mentions Sayers in an exchange with Melissa Anelli:
MA: How much fun did you have with the romance in this book?
JKR: Oh, loads. Doesn't it show?
MA: Yes.
JKR: There's a theory - this applies to detective novels, and then Harry, which is not really a detective novel, but it feels like one sometimes - that you should not have romantic intrigue in a detective book. Dorothy L. Sayers, who is queen of the genre said - and then broke her own rule, but said - that there is no place for romance in a detective story except that it can be useful to camouflage other people's motives. That's true; it is a very useful trick. I've used that on Percy and I've used that to a degree on Tonks in this book, as a red herring. But having said that, I disagree inasmuch as mine are very character-driven books, and it's so important, therefore, that we see these characters fall in love, which is a necessary part of life.
Please feel free to note and promote other Wimsey-influenced fics in the comments here; I'll be updating this list when time and inclination coincide.
[* = a personal favorite]
* ajhalluk - Lust Over Pendle series (superbly indexed by geoviki) (NL/DM)
busaikko - Even The Moon (SS/RL). Echoes two lines from Gaudy Night.
- The Waltz Continues (SS/RL). From the author's notes: "Sayers, Pratchett, and Bujold: I owe them much."
- Legacy (RL/NT). Also influenced by Alcott.
catrinella - "Like the dew I begot you" (Dumbledore & Lord Peter) and other stories in placet.
copperbadge - Wolves At the Door (gen; incomplete)
Cartographer's Craft - chapter 32 features a Ted Tonks whom the author characterizes in his summary as "Sayersian" (Lupin/Tonks and other pairings)
cordelia_v - Draco Vs. Lord Peter Wimsey (essay)
ellid - full series ("Motherless Child") archived at ellidfics - includes:
Truth (RL/PW)
New York Minute (SS/RL)
Ghost Story (SS/RL)
* Knowledge of Desire (SS/RL)
Handel with Care (SS/RL)
"Flourish" - Otherwise Known As Hermione Granger (SS/HG)
"Harriet Vane" - Dancing in Your Shadow (HG/DM, GinnyW/SF). Extended allusions to Strong Poison, Gaudy Night, and Busman's Honeymoon, but not a happy fic.
"Hecate" - Words Beguile Him and A Game of Chess
hilarita - There is Pansies. That's For Thoughts (NL)
"Isis" - Salvation (SS/DM) - brief description of Snape's bookshelves in chapter 4
* jamoche Untitled (Aftermath) (NL/DM - part of the LoPverse)
lordpeter - character journal, milliways_bar RPG. Some of the older entries are Peter Wimsey/Remus Lupin.
* marginaliana - Another Year
me - Between Night and Dawn (SS/RL; NT/GinnyW)
Not Removed (SS/RL)
Vamping the History Department, Right and Left (SS/RL)
Placet and related stories (SS/RL, Granger/Sinistra, Molly & Bunter, and others)
The Hounding of the Baskervilles (SS/RL)
"Peacock Harpy" - Changes (LE/JP)
* Untitled: A Harry Potter RPG - the major pairing so far is BW/DM. Draco gave Ginny a copy of Gaudy Night on her eighteenth birthday.
I am aware of (but have not yet read):
"aashby" (a/k/a theatresm) - Chaos Is Come Again (HG/SS) and Brave New World
"Flourish" - What Little Things Remain (HG/SS)
"DrT" - Training and Confrontations (H/L/Hr tale, with N/G, R/T; 53 chapters)
"GryffindorTower" - Blaise Zabini and the Magical Cat and several other series
"Angua9" - Harry Potter and the Fifth Year From Hell (R/H)
Natasha Simonova - Here Then At Home and "The Perilous Point" (SS/OFC)
Other:
MA: How much fun did you have with the romance in this book?
JKR: Oh, loads. Doesn't it show?
MA: Yes.
JKR: There's a theory - this applies to detective novels, and then Harry, which is not really a detective novel, but it feels like one sometimes - that you should not have romantic intrigue in a detective book. Dorothy L. Sayers, who is queen of the genre said - and then broke her own rule, but said - that there is no place for romance in a detective story except that it can be useful to camouflage other people's motives. That's true; it is a very useful trick. I've used that on Percy and I've used that to a degree on Tonks in this book, as a red herring. But having said that, I disagree inasmuch as mine are very character-driven books, and it's so important, therefore, that we see these characters fall in love, which is a necessary part of life.
Please feel free to note and promote other Wimsey-influenced fics in the comments here; I'll be updating this list when time and inclination coincide.