For an author who believed strongly in the rules of murder mysteries (in a nutshell, playing fair with the reader and being true to reality),
Dorothy Sayers marks the occasion of her 10th Lord Peter Wimsey bow, “Gaudy Night” (1935), with a novel that’s messy, socially fascinating, narratively ambitious, unwieldy,
Without abandoning her obsession with detail, Dorothy L. Sayers follows the borderline unreadable “Five Red Herrings” with one of her elite novels, “Have His Carcase”
Dorothy L. Sayers inadvertently raises the question of how much detail is too much in “The Five Red Herrings” (1931), her sixth Lord Peter Wimsey
Before I started reading golden-age mysteries, I thought “meta” storytelling (stories that reference the fact that they are stories, or that they exist in a
“The Floating Admiral” (1931) is billed as “the most unusual mystery ever written,” and it may indeed be. It’s a “round-robin” novel. Think of it