In the Teeth of the Evidence - Dorothy L. Sayers

going to bed. That way, there is no wondering what is going to happen next, everything is neatly resolved in a few pages. This is not the first collection of Dorothy L Sayers short stories I have read - Lord Peter Views the Body is another such collection. Unfortunately, I am not at all sure that short stories are Sayers strong point. She does occasionally come up with a good one, but the majority are weak; in fact, in the case of this collection, I would go as far as to say that none of them are very good. A contemporary of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers is responsible for Lord Peter Wimsey, a pompous, upper-class private detective whose skills are frequently ...

The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers

concept of Bunter, who is more of a friend to Lord Peter than a servant, he is just a little too rough and ready to be true. I suspect that Sayers, who came from a relatively middle class background, didn’t really know all that many people of the servant class and had to base the character on caricatures. The story itself is strong and I did really enjoy it. What lets it down though is the constant reference to change ringing – this is all to do with the way in which church bells are rung in a pattern – I found that this was over-complicated and frankly not all that necessary for the story. I tended to find myself skipping these sections. The bells do play an important ...