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Originally posted by Mark Padgett

Dorothy L. Sayers (not Sayer) was a British mystery writer. She died in 1957. Probably her most popular detective was Lord Peter Whimsey.

To answer Chuck's question, yes I did get my posts crossed. I'm not sure what went wrong. If you enjoy detective fiction (not the dark Dashiell Hamnett type, but the details of a situation type) you'll love Dorothy L. Sayers. She is a fabulous writer, and her books are tremendous. Then, once you are addicted to her writing, you can delve into her Christian works such as The Man Born to be King, and Are Women Human? and Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World. She was a very strange person in many ways, (like another famous Dorothy, she smoked cigars from time to time) but an incredible thinker and writer. She was a friend of "The Inklings" if that literary reference means anything to you, although she never "joined".

To answer another question, Jane Austen was the greatest British writer until Dorothy L. Sayers. She wrote Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and the first and second drafts of Persuasion. She was the daughter of a vicar, and never married, but her writing captured the social atmosphere of middle class Britain in the early 1800's as well as any writing ever did. She is witty, subtle and incisive in her style, and very much in tune with human frailties and foibles. Her writings were popular from the very beginning, and have never stopped selling, although they have enjoyed a recent surge in readership, probably due to three new film versions of her works--Pride and Prerjudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. I personally wish someone would do Northanger Abbey, since I find it extremely amusing, but perhaps it is just too vapid.

Well, that's more than most of you probably care to know about English literature.

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