Review: One of my favorite writers, both before and after I began to practice the arcane craft of wordsmithing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
I like Dorothy Sayers' writing. Yes, she was anti-Semitic, racist, and suffered from all the class-consciousness and other bigotries common to her age and upbringing. The great fun of any of the Wimseys onstage more than compensates for that, I find, though it is jarring (also, I am not a member of any group to which she regularly took the Mallet of Malicious Destruction. Apparently, she didn't have experience of many non-upper-class Americans). Harriet Vane, now married to Peter, holds her own well: Sayers carefully constructs just the right occasion for zingers from Harriet, who often obliges.