Dorothy Sayers
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In Search of Turkish Delight March 25, 2025
In a final scene of Dorothy Sayers’s 1930 novel Strong Poison, a murderer devours a large quantity of Turkish delight in the parlor of Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers’s amateur-sleuth aristocrat. Wimsey, in the course of his gotcha monologue, says, “Th...
Dorothy Sayers: A Self Entire July 02, 2024
No doubt it is inconvenient for the writer, but one of the best things that can happen for readers is when a great writer—a truly great writer—is required by circumstances to work in popular genres. These “marketable” books or stories, composed to pu...
