Tag Archives: Dorothy Sayers

Deja vu all over again

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Naomi

Why is it I’m finding parallels with our immediate lives in old stories I am reading? Does the following conversation in a train feel like an analysis of today’s news? ‘The way I look at it is this,’ pursued the … Continue reading →

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Need a laugh? Try these virtual charades

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Naomi

Would I let you down in our time of viral tsouris? Well, yes, I might…but I’m not going to. Instead, try some jollity from Dorothy Sayers who, in her short mystery “Nebuchadnezzar,” describes a game of what seems to be … Continue reading →

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Dear authors: Long, long ago, before there were podcasts…

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Naomi

Dorothy Sayers wrote a short story, “An Arrow O’er The House,” in which an aspiring murder mystery novelist, Mr. Humphrey Podd, has become frustrated by publishers’ rejections of his books. He decides he needs a vigorous method of promotion even … Continue reading →

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