The Gospel in Dorothy Sayers : selections from her novels, plays, letters, and essays / edited by Carole Vanderhoof, with an appreciation by C. S. Lewis.
"A master of the detective story delves into the mysteries of faith, doubt, human nature, feminism, art, and more. For almost a century, the murder mysteries of Dorothy L. Sayers have kept readers turning pages a Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane discover whodunit, again and again. Meanwhile, other readers have appreciated Sayers's acumen as an essayist, playwright, Christian apologist, and translator of Dante. Finally, here is an anthology that brings together the best of both worlds, teasing our gospel themes woven throughout Sayers's popular fiction as well as her plays, correspondence, talks, and essays. Why did Sayers continue to write genre fiction even as she emerged as a leading public intellectual? Like her contemporaries G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, Sayers used her fiction to explore the choices characters make between good and evil. She proved questions of guilt and innocence, sin and redemption, the cost of war, the effects of privilege, and the place of women in society--yet always managed to spin a captivating yarn."-- Back cover.
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