The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Dorothy L. Sayers

  • 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…

  • Spring Book Haul

    I don’t typically accumulate a substantial number of mysteries when I’m already in the midst of reading several new books. And I need to finish up Eliza Reid’s Death on the Island (with thanks to NetGalley for the preview) and Janice Hallett’s art school-email mystery, which manages to make an LMS messaging tool interesting. But…

  • Independent Women in Golden Age Mysteries: From Evil Under the Sun to Gaudy Night

    Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun (1941) has a wonderful series of final revelations. Poirot untangles the various threads that have complicated his investigation of Arlena Stuart’s mystery, for a rapt audience of suspects and bystanders. While the crime was rather convoluted in its execution, the motives were straightforward. Then there are the last several…