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LONDON — Kathryn Wehr, Ph.D., has come to London from her home in Minnesota to speak about the work and life of the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957). “She is just so interesting,” begins ...

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull. With a flair for the dramatic, ...

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull. With a flair for the dramatic, ...

Crystal Downing, codirector of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, wrote an article for CT magazine four years ago that launched her most recent book on Dorothy L. Sayers, the renowned ...

GAUDY NIGHT—Dorothy L. Sayers— Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Though murder stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant ...

Might as well admit it: once upon a time, disinclined to mix business with pleasure, I found the very idea of the “Philosophical Novel” off-putting. It was Alison Lurie’s Imaginary Friends, a ...

Well, of course. This intense and psychological journey into the darkness of Shrewsbury College is a must read for so many reasons. It has the marvelous Harriet Vane, the brilliant, intense, powerful ...

To pose a good question—like Sayers, Socrates, and Jesus—is to invite someone into a journey. I remember clearly where I was sitting when someone asked me a question that would change the entire ...