World War I is over. Humanity has gone through hell and emerged strung between merry, hectic giddiness and entrenched, unspeakable grief. And Lord Peter Wimsey—scion of the aristocracy; military hero; ...
In Mo Moulton’s ambitious yet intimate book, at least a half dozen contemporaries of Dorothy L. Sayers emerge as figures who are as fascinating as the novelist, translator, and playwright was herself.
Might as well admit it: once upon a time, disinclined to mix business with pleasure, I found the very idea of the “Philosophical Novel” off-putting. It was Alison Lurie’s Imaginary Friends, a ...
As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull. With a flair for the dramatic, ...
LONDON — Kathryn Wehr, Ph.D., has come to London from her home in Minnesota to speak about the work and life of the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957). “She is just so interesting,” begins ...
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution This impressive collection celebrates the life and thought of late progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans (A Year of ...
Dorothy L. Sayers, to many the quintessential British mystery writer, is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the quintessentially aristocratic sleuth who tootles along to murder scenes in ...
Crystal Downing, codirector of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, wrote an article for CT magazine four years ago that launched her most recent book on Dorothy L. Sayers, the renowned ...
As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull. With a flair for the dramatic, ...
In immensely uncertain times, these women prevailed. It’s difficult not to read Wade’s book with an eye towards our own circumstances and what we’re accomplishing. Speaking about how her subjects kept ...
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a ...
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