![]() ![]() More than eighty years after “Gaudy Night” was published, in 1935, we’re enjoying another golden age of detective stories. ![]() Human beings were not like that.” Harriet wonders what might happen if she were to “abandon the jig-saw kind of story and write a book about human beings for a change.” ![]() The relationships between her characters “were beginning to take on an unnatural, an incredible symmetry. Harriet is a successful author, like her creator, but suffers from writer’s block. Sayers, the heroine, Harriet Vane, wonders whether mystery novels can ever rise to the level of literature. In “ Gaudy Night,” a classic of the golden age of detective fiction by Dorothy L. Sayers didn’t begin her career with the intention of writing mysteries. ![]()
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