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A review by gabrielrobartes
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
4.0
Why read a 1924 novel about a rich English aristocrat and the terrible legal problems of his brother, the Duke in 2023?
Mostly because it’s fun, a great deal of fun. Sayers was one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford, translated Dante for Penguin and could be seen as the inventor of the cosy mystery, excepting the sharpness of her skewering of class norms and eye for the fantastic. One of the few books I adored as a teenager (fat Gollanz hardbacks in those marvellous matt yellow dust jackets) which doesn’t disappoint 40 odd years later.
Mostly because it’s fun, a great deal of fun. Sayers was one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford, translated Dante for Penguin and could be seen as the inventor of the cosy mystery, excepting the sharpness of her skewering of class norms and eye for the fantastic. One of the few books I adored as a teenager (fat Gollanz hardbacks in those marvellous matt yellow dust jackets) which doesn’t disappoint 40 odd years later.