Like mysteries ? Have you read Dorothy Sayers’ mystery novels ?
Dorothy Sayers is a writer often associated with C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, who wrote many books for Christian audiences. She considered her best work to be her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
We recently posed the question of where to start with her mystery novels to David Neuhouser, who is a lover of mysteries and Scholar in Residence at Taylor University’s Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis and Friends (and Professor Emeritus at TU). Neuhouser has taught courses on Sayers, Lewis, Wendell Berry and perhaps his favorite, George Macdonald.
The Documents in the Case
The only one of Dorothy Sayers’s mysteries not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey.
This is an epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters. This collection of documents—hence the novel’s title—is explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim’s son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father. (Wikipedia.com)
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Thanks for this!!! I’ve read the first two and will definitely finish with the others!
I adore these books. Good piece.
Regrettably, this list omits “Nine Tailors” — the most haunting and possibly the most accomplished of the Wimsey novels.
I agree. If you could only read one Wimsey novel I would recommend Nine Tailors. I’d also put Murder must Advertise before most of these.