Hints and tips:
...I hesitate to reveal more, though I can tell you that there is a spy subplot and a cameo from the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers....
...Touring East Anglia, Ross inspects the roof angels of St Peter’s Upwell, the Fenland church on which Dorothy L Sayers drew for her tantalising 1934 mystery novel of bell-ringers and bigamy, The Nine Tailors...
...The future detective novelist Dorothy L Sayers, as a copywriter in London from 1922 until 1931, created the undying Guinness ad starring a toucan: “If he can say as you can / Guinness is good for you / How...
...Finally, aspirant crime writers will relish the tips in Howdunit, edited by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins, £14.99); everyone from Dorothy L Sayers to current crime writers are on hand to inspire those hoping...
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
...Cusk’s L is accompanied not by Frieda but by a young, self-absorbed woman named Brett (when the Lawrences went to Taos in 1925 for the second time they brought with them Dorothy Brett, the naive daughter...
...Online fashion rival, Boohoo, whose chief executive John Lyttle was once in charge of buying at Arcadia, is likely to acquire Topshop stablemates Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis....
...L Sayers’ Unnatural Death and Christie’s Peril at End House for two gripping examples)....
...Now the team tackles The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s famous tale of Dorothy, a young Kansas girl who has her life turned upside down (a situation with which we can all sympathise)....
...Headed by Dorothy L Sayers — who would go on to become the renowned crime writer and creator of the beloved aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey — they called themselves the Mutual Admiration Society (MAS...
...L Sayers and Agatha Christie novels....
...And is he going to like the writer Dorothy Parker, now tripping down the steep path in her equally silly shoes?...
...Dorothy L Sayers, the crime novelist, was there for a year, Woolf for less than a year and Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar and translator, for two years....
...L Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, historian Eileen Power and — who could avoid her?...
...He loves things that are imitations of great design, he says, or that turn it on its head through illusion, like trompe-l’œil, which gives the appearance of a third dimension where none exists....
...Cheekily titled Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics, the project celebrates the daring provocations of Tompkins, Bernstein, Slinger and Natalia LL, as well as Renate Bertlmann, Mary Beth Edelson, Dorothy...
...L Sayers, who wrote in her 1944 foreword: “The Moonstone is impeccable . . ....
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
...The suspects gather in an enclosed space — Agatha Christie’s Orient Express, Dorothy L Sayers’ Bellona Club, or even JK Rowling’s Hogwarts. They cannot wander out or establish their alibis....
...Aided by the acrylic polymer, he has gone on to use the process from South Africa to the East End of Long Island, where he and his partner of 15 years, Dorothy Spears, rent a weekend house....
...Dorothy Sayers, for example, always anxious about being labelled middlebrow by snobbish critics, mocks this world in detective novels such as Strong Poison (1930) and Gaudy Night (1935)....
...Dorothy Burwell Partner and head of natural resources, Finsbury 100....
...A year later, L&M Arts Los Angeles closed as well, leaving Sprüth Magers’ artists Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in the same position....
...A generalist who sniffs around society haunts can dig up intriguing clues, as Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot demonstrated....
...When, after quarter of a century’s research, Dorothy Hartley published Food In England in 1954 it was already an historical document, something from a distant era, like cars with mudguards....
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