Dorothy L Sayers Solves Her Mystery
Shedunnit
Caroline Crampton
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the sixth and final episode of Queens of Crime at War, a series looking at what |
| 0:26.9 | the best writers from the Golden Age of Detective Viction did once that period came to an end |
| 0:31.9 | with the start of the Second World War. If this is the first time that you're hearing |
| 0:36.7 | it, you might want to go back and catch up once you finish with this episode. I've covered |
| 0:41.8 | Agatha Christie, ECR Lorac, Marjorie Allingham, Josephine Tay and Nioh Marsh. We're finishing |
| 0:49.4 | the series with an author very dear to my heart, but someone who doesn't quite fit the pattern |
| 0:54.7 | set by her fellow Queens of Crime. Whereas other crime writers molded their who-done |
| 1:00.7 | its to fit the changing times as War broke out, she allowed herself to be pulled into different |
| 1:05.9 | kinds of work, and left mysteries behind her in that interwar period we now know as the |
| 1:11.2 | Golden Age of Detective Viction. The Second World War saw her become more famous than |
| 1:17.0 | ever, but it wasn't for her sleuthing stories. She is, of course, Dorothy L. Sayers. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm delighted to say that the She-Dunet Pledge Drive has now met its goal, so it'll be |
| 1:39.1 | another year before you have to hear me talking about it again. As a thank you to everyone |
| 1:44.0 | who joined the She-Dunet Book Club during this series to help me fund another 12 months |
| 1:48.1 | of the podcast, I'm doing a festive livestream just for my members and paying supporters |
| 1:53.9 | on the 15th of December at 6 p.m. UK time. So if you'd like to come to that, make sure |
| 1:59.5 | you join before then at she-Dunetbookclub.com slash join. |
| 2:06.7 | Even a quick glance at Dorothy L. Sayers' list of publications will leave you with questions |
| 2:11.9 | about why I'm including her in a series about the development of mystery writing during |
| 2:16.7 | World War II. Her last full-length detective novel, Bussman's Honeymoon, was published |
| 2:23.1 | in 1937. Aside from a few short stories here and there after that, and the contribution |
| 2:29.8 | to a round-robin novel in 1939, that was her last proper detective fiction to be published. |
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