Review: Ned, Barnardo Boy

There are only a select subset of books that I reread. Most are barely worth the time to finish them, but there are a few that bear rereading again and again. Dorothy Sayers is like that. Although she writes mysteries, her prose is so enjoyable that you don't even care that you know "who dunnit." I was rereading one of hers the other day and Harriet mentioned to Lord Peter that someone was a Barnardo's boy. Thanks to Barbara Coyle, this time I knew what she meant!

Anyone in the England of 70 o...