Tag: easter
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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…
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Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy
“Nature’s in turmoil. Anything can happen.” Ruth Zardo, The Cruellest Month “Whan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote. . . .” Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Penny borrows the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as the title of her third Three…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 