A renowned British writer best known for her detective stories featuring investigator Lord Peter Wimsey, as well as for her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Dorothy L. Sayers was educated at Oxford. She became one of the founding members of the Detection Club – with G. K. Chesterton preceding her as president and Agatha Christie succeeding her. Her most enduring works of fiction include Gaudy Night, Busman’s Honeymoon, The Nine Tailors, and Murder Must Advertise. She also wrote several acclaimed plays – The Man Born to Be King, The Zeal of Thy House, and The Just Vengeance – and published essays in books such as Creed or Chaos? and The Mind of the Maker.
Carole Vanderhoof highlights Sayers’ thinking on themes like pride, belief, and envy… With bracing wit, Sayers continues to entertain and challenge.
WORLD Magazine
Scholarly and quietly poetic.… Vanderhoof arranges Sayers’ writings in a subtle crescendo, culminating in her commentary on art and Christianity. To an age that views religion – especially Christianity – as irrational and oppressive, Sayers makes a critical case for reassessment.
The Remembered Arts Journal
A very important anthology gleaned from different novels, plays, and other writings of Dorothy L. Sayers with a focus on religious and theological themes. For the person seeking out those themes, one need no longer turn to various books; Ms. Vanderhoof has done that research for us…. The book has an excellent chronology of Sayers’ life, plus a selected bibliography at the back.
The Dorothy L. Sayers Society, UK
Sayers’ detective stories are still bringing great enjoyment—and the uplifting contact with a brilliant and wise mind—to millions; and those who know her apologetic works have the added advantage of her more explicit thoughts on the faith…. Plough is helping revive those works for a new audience, and by tying them to her fiction, showing that the light of Christ shines through them all.
Mere Orthodoxy
With the growing interest in Sayers studies, this is a timely and helpful volume.
Ethics & Culture
That [Sayers] was a Christian apologist à la C. S. Lewis is made manifest in this generous selection of excerpts from her wide-ranging work…. This multifaceted volume is sure to expand Sayers’ reputation, not only as a writer but also as a thinker.