The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy: Margaret Mayhew’s Detective Novels
I recently read six novels by Margaret Mayhew, after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of Joffe Books …
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Review: Much Dithering by Dorothy Lambert
Much Dithering is both the title of a novel by Dorothy Lambert, and the name of the village where the …
“Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women”: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare
Yesterday the journal Shakespeare published an article entitled “Three Ordinary, Normal Old Women: Agatha Christie’s Uses of Shakespeare”. The reason …
Mummers Must Advertise: Dorothy L. Sayers, Ben Jonson, Balzac and a Host of Hogglers
Having recounted one tale of a literary reference I thought I’d found (but which turned out to be no such …
Miss Pettigrew and the Provincial Lady: Women Looking at Women
Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …
“like a female spaniel that thinks it’s going to get whipped”: Dorothy L. Sayers, Caroline Spurgeon and Shakespeare
Well, I was rather fond of Komski. And I did almost promise to live with him, till I found that …
The Great Nutrax Row (The Mother of All Office Kerfuffles) by AJ Hall
This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …
Heroine Addict: Emma Kendall on Harriet Vane
For a little while it was Violet Baudelaire. There were many, many years when it was Lyra Silvertongue. There was …
Five Red Herrings, Filleted: A Dorothy L. Sayers Guest Post by A.J. Hall
This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …
The Bulldog’s Jowls: Three Days in May by Ben Brown, Starring Warren Clarke
The five minute bell had just rung, and the bassist from The Jam was holding up the bar queue. The …
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