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3 giorni fa · Allen & Unwin, $32.99. Dementia is particularly cruel to the intelligent, and especially to lovers of words: think of Terry Pratchett, Iris Murdoch, Robin Williams. Wordsmiths who are also ...
5 giorni fa · Whose Body? is the first title in her famous Lord Peter Wimsey series, which spanned 15 books, including several short story collections. The Plot: Thipps, an architect, discovers a dead body wearing only a pair of pince-nez in the bathtub of his London flat.
5 giorni fa · A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh & Dorothy L. Sayers. This book is a slightly hybrid effort. When Dorothy L. Sayers stopped writing Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane novels, she did write a few letters featuring Wimsey family members during the Second World War.
2 giorni fa · Dorothy L. Sayers, too, has her own kind of wit, and it is that which makes the Peter Wimsey books often so charming. Her observations of class differences never fail to feel sharp, and her depiction of Lord Peter’s mother often has a trenchant edge.
1 giorno fa · Dorothy L. Sayers writes that the Malebolge is "the image of the City in corruption: the progressive disintegration of every social relationship, personal and public. Sexuality, ecclesiastical and civil office, language, ownership, counsel, authority, psychic influence, and material interdependence – all the media of the community's interchange are perverted and falsified".
5 giorni fa · Ruth Ware’s meticulously crafted mystery novels are often compared with those of Golden Age crime writers like Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, and Dorothy L. Sayers. In her new book, five couples competing in an island reality show run into trouble when an unexpected storm separates them from the rest of the production crew.
23 ore fa · Last weekend, it was my distinct honour to present for a fourth time at the Bodies from the Library conference, in this instance on the topic of Enid Blyton's detective fiction as represented by her Five Find-Outers series.
