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Tag: Dorothy L. Sayers

  • New Year’s Eve: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Nine Tailors and the Pealing of the Church Bells

    “From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the uproar of the internal combustion engine and the wailing of the jazz band should be so sensitive to the one loud noise that is made to the glory of God.” In her Foreword…

  • Ariadne Oliver and Harriet Vane on the Work of Writing

    I’ve come around to appreciating Agatha Christie’s fictional crime novelist, Ariadne Oliver. She’s written broadly, as a caricature of Christie herself–a substantial woman in midlife, trailing apple cores. Like Dorothy L. Sayers’s Harriet Vane, a writer of detective novels, Ariadne is a well-regarded author of mysteries who can’t resist dabbling in a few herself. Also…

  • Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to Be King and Easter

    Dorothy L. Sayers was a prolific writer of Golden Age mystery fiction, co-authoring several works with Detection Club members, as well as producing her own long-running Lord Peter Wimsey (and Harriet Vane!) series. But her writing achievements as a whole were much broader. Sayers had a classical education, and a lot of Latin shows up…