December Books

...D E Stevenson Spilling the Beans, Clarissa Dickson Wright I then started an Inspector Singh novel by Shamini Flint but it didn’t grab me. Suzette Wins her Way by ... forget what gave me the sudden urge to read Murder Must Advertise yet again; it’s one of my favourite Dorothy L Sayers novels. I’ve been assured in the past that all the detail about life in an advertising agency is still ...

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Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

...is that this was the first Wimsey novel but even so, all the elements that make Sayers great are already here: the characterisations,... Wimsey is a complicated character and Sayers’ draws out the aftershocks from his ... Equally interesting though is the way Sayers draws a distinction between Wimsey – .... The Verdict: Quintessential reading for Sayers fans with a touching demonstration of ...

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Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

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December novel-reading, creative work

...R. R. Martin, The Armageddon Rag CJ Cherryh, Destroyer Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison (reread) Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (reread) Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (reread) CJ Cherryh, Pretender Sara Ryan, Empress of the World Somewhere in the ... I had forgotten what a lovely and assured prose stylist Sayers was, particularly in Gaudy Night , which in its own...

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Another book meme

... that this was the one to come from the ‘old green Penguin’ collection in the spare bedroom. I love Dorothy L Sayers but think of her more as a novelist than as a detective writer, brilliant though she was at it. ... first line book quizzes, I bet more people know the first line of this novel, "Take my camel, dear," said my aunt Dot , than have read it. I’...

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Books read in 2009

...Lee's success with her one novel, and he barely credited her work.... 30. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers. Excellent midcentury mystery fare. .... 36. Clouds of Witness , by Dorothy L. Sayer. I like Lord Peter...at the Bellonna Club , by Dorothy L. Sayers. Yay for Lord Peter again...). Based-on-a-true-story novel about a young teacher in the...but it was a great historical novel, taking place in the time ...

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Happy Boxmas!

...makes it because it needs to be chilled for 24 hours. Then gifts! The bulk of my haul was from Mom, and it consisted largely of almost every Dorothy L. Sayers novel ever written, plus the Wolverine movie, which I have seen and thought was rather mediocre, but it's two hours of Hugh Jackman shirtless so I do not...

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vintage crime fiction

... also other mysteries from the same era, in addition to the novels of the so-called golden age of the English detective novel – writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Agatha Christie. We will also be discussing the American hardboiled school (Chandler, Hammett, Cain, etc), and other British writers like...

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End-of-year meme

... of MFU (Man from U.N.C.L.E.). I even started writing again! Your... slightly by having gushed about an earlier novel featuring the dynamic duo of Agent Pendergast and Detective D'Agosta "Dance of Death." Old: "Murder Must Advertise" by Dorothy Sayers. (And OMG, in re-reading this link, it also marks the birth ...echo rileyc 's answer: The new Pendergast novel, "Fever Dream," due in May!

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Round Two: Discussion Questions; Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers

... like it to, is the gold a symbol of things to come. Are the colours meant to bracket the story and what do you think the difference between red and gold means? 2) Unusually for a murder mystery novel, the first three chapters are taken up with the trial of the accused. Is this too much, or is it necessary to set up the following investigation? 3) Food (see, that's the topic, right) plays a ...

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