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A review by lelia_t
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
3.0
For some reason I’m reading Sayers’ mysteries from Gaudy Night backwards and each preceding book gets a little more typical of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction genre, with less of the thoughtfulness and depth of character that we get with Gaudy Night. That’s not a complaint - I enjoy both for different reasons - but it’s interesting to imagine Sayers trying to do more with each successive book as she got comfortable with the genre.
Hard to talk about the best parts of this mystery without giving away some of the surprises, but there’s plenty to enjoy here. There is also the off-putting use of racial slurs, not as a reflection of Sayers’ or Wimsey’s beliefs, but as a reflection of societal stereotypes.
Hard to talk about the best parts of this mystery without giving away some of the surprises, but there’s plenty to enjoy here. There is also the off-putting use of racial slurs, not as a reflection of Sayers’ or Wimsey’s beliefs, but as a reflection of societal stereotypes.