Or more for Ms. Sayers who writes so wonderfully well. But I am so, so glad that I've picked a book that everyone has enjoyed. Hope Kate does too. Kudos to Lila for buying them for me. Oh, does anyone mind if i give her the link to this site? She was most interested in what we will be saying about Peter Wimsey.
I am not a mystery reader. Other than Bunnicula and the rest of that series by James Howe, i don't think i've read a mystery. Although i suppose a lot of stories have mystery in them, 'how's the book going to end?' I know for a fact I cannot write mysteries, my failed attempt to write a spec script for Veronica Mars is proof of that. And i certainly i'm not about murder mysteries. I'm a bit too squeamish sometimes.
But Ms. Sayers does such a good job of not being too graphic about the dead. Enough is there for the horror of it, but Peter (since he and I are on a first name basis now) looks at it so clinically, just for the facts and details, that I'm not given too much time to ponder the deceased.
I have my ideas about whodunnit and all, but I never really try all that hard to solve the story. i think what i like best about Sayers are her characters. The mysteries are always good, but what makes the stories for me are her characters. The regulars, Peter, Bunter, Parker, The Dowager (Peter's mom) and the dayplayers, Thipps, Mrs. Thipps and much more to come, i'm sure.
The Dowager is one of her best characters. She is whom Peter gets his smarts from but she's a little airheady. She'll talk in circles, but at the end of her diatribe you'll realize that she's right on the money.
Parker had one of the best lines. in chapter 2:
(peter) "...but i've seen the body, and i should say the idea was preposterous upon the face of it. what do you think of the brandy?"
(parker) "Unbelievable, Wimsey -- sort of thing makes one believe in heaven."
Hilarious.
Class is an interesting thing to look at. So is religion. Peter often mentions he's not religious. I asked Lila about that and she said that because church was so much about society and not about faith back then, that that might be why Sayers (a christian herself) does that. might have to look into that.
Personally, we could do the whole series of peter wimsey books and i'd have no problem. Till next week...
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I think it goes without saying that Lila is certainly welcome to read here. (Heck, I'm even okay if she wants to comment--I assume she's a decent person and wouldn't spoil the ending...)
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