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Frankly, I think everyone’s answer to this topic will be different.  Obviously.  So, here’s the one book I force my friends to read encourage my friends to try. “Gaudy Night” by Dorothy L. Sayers.  This story has everything I love.  Romance, literary references, a very cool mystery and a happy

September BookBalloon reading club selection: Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers This delightful “whodunit” unfolds at the all-female Shrewsbury College at Oxford. It features Harriet Vane, a returned alumna and mystery writer and Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective and sometime boyfriend of Ms.

Some of my favorite science fiction freebies have already been picked for the Five Free Favorites feature. Since SFFaudio has recently added Aural Noir reviews, I decided to choose favorites from that genre instead. So, I reached back into the archive of reviews at Free Listens for the best free stories and books from the noir/crime/mystery genres.

This post reviews Peter J. Leithart, “The New Classical Schooling” in Intercollegiate Review 43, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 3-12. (Available fulltext here) Leithart, a professor at New Saint Andrews University in Moscow, Idaho, is well-placed to chronicle the emerging classical Christian Education

There is a Dorothy L. Sayers quote Mercedes Lackey is quite partial to as I have seen it in the author’s note or preface in at least two of her books now. From her most recent book The Snow Queen: “Dorothy L.

(submitted by Julia Buckley) Thank you to the Deadly Daughters for allowing me to guest blog today on a topic that is near and dear to my heart: female mystery authors. It is widely accepted that the first published mystery was “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” penned by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841 (and

A list Asked to pick something as simple as a favorite color, I am apt to be catapulted off the Bridge of Death by the Old Man from Scene 24. About books I am as fickle as Gin (see comment to previous post). I can’t even claim to be serially monogamous because there’s genre to be considered.

Starting with a quote on Maggi Dawn, I found myself tracking down the full source of the quote on another blog, Commonplaces. It is a letter attributed to Dorothy L. Sayers, which addresses itself to what "average people" think about, and think they know about, Christianity.

{Bells (2006), by secretagentmartens. All rights reserved.} Reading Thomas De Quincey's wry, deliciously nasty essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1827) on the bus this morning, I suddenly realized that nearly everyone I wrote about this week can be unexpectedly connected--which means it's time to play Chase That Topic!

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers (BBC Audio ISBN: 978-1-846-071485), starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey and Peter Jones as Bunter. As a rather gruesome child, I read nothing but murder mysteries between the ages of ten and thirteen.