This will be an accounting of my favorite mystery authors, beginning with my absolute favorite, and will take place over several posts.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries are just fantastic. I have loved every one that I have read, although my favorites are with Harriet Vane. The characters Sayers created within her books are the most real and complex characters that I have ever read in a mystery novel. She actually cared to create a life for her sleuth and eventually for Harriet. Her mysteries are also complex, they make the reader think, not just idly read them for entertainment purposes. They are so full of details that reading them again brings out new ones and makes it seem familiar and new at the same time. I don't really think this does her works justice, but it's the best I can manage at the moment.
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