The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote “real” novels.  Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition of the English novel which she admired.  Gaudy Night, for example, bears striking similarities to nineteenth-century English fiction, especially the novels of Jane Austen.  The links between t…