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I believe I read this years ago. And didn't recall being crazy about the Montagu Egg stories. They seemed okay this time.
But the story that really knocked me out was "The Man Who Knew How". Guy is reading a detective story on the train (author taking a swipe at writers who write intelligent school stories - possibly at Edmund Crispin or Michael Innes?) who isn't too sure about how a guy is looking at him. Other fellow tells him that he knows how to kill people without getting caught. Just look ...more
But the story that really knocked me out was "The Man Who Knew How". Guy is reading a detective story on the train (author taking a swipe at writers who write intelligent school stories - possibly at Edmund Crispin or Michael Innes?) who isn't too sure about how a guy is looking at him. Other fellow tells him that he knows how to kill people without getting caught. Just look ...more
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This is a highly enjoyable collection of short stories. It's interesting to read this alongside Sayers' novels, since there are quite a few similarites in theme and location. The book starts off with four Lord Peter Wimsey stories. The first of these is rather weak, but the second one has a creepy horror story quality to it (Sayers edited a collection of detection and horror tales) and has stuck in my mind from my first reading of the book years ago.
These are followed by two lighter mysteries i ...more
These are followed by two lighter mysteries i ...more
1933, 12 short stories: 4 Lord Peter, 6 Montague Egg, 2 misc; entertaining anthology, but generally speaking these are not Sayers' best stories; overall: three-and-one-half stars
A nice, comfortable book of slightly twisted, nicely wrought stories, all mysterious and/or suspenseful in nature, with decent pacing and careful plotting. I had read all the Lord Peter stories several times perviously; all of them are among my favorite short stories, especially "The incredible elopement of Lord Peter Wi ...more
A nice, comfortable book of slightly twisted, nicely wrought stories, all mysterious and/or suspenseful in nature, with decent pacing and careful plotting. I had read all the Lord Peter stories several times perviously; all of them are among my favorite short stories, especially "The incredible elopement of Lord Peter Wi ...more
Back to Dorothy L Sayers for a quick and comfortable read. I'm still working my way through her Lord Peter Wimsey stories for the As My Whimsy Takes Me Reading Challenge. Hangman's Holiday is a mixed bag collection of Sayers' short stories. We are offered four LPW shorts, six stories featuring Montague Egg (traveling salesman for Plummet & Rose, Wine & Spirts), and two stand-alone stories. My second (or third or whatever) go round on the stories wasn't quite as exciting as I recall my initial re
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