Dorothy Sayers

Now it's back to the fiction and we are back with period crime.  There is quite a lot of that on my bookshelves.  This is a lovely Folio Society boxed set of Lord Peter Whimsey mysteries written by Dorothy Sayers.  Sadly it isn't a complete set of all the books.  I can't understand why the Folio Society didn't include all of the titles in this set. 

I can read these again and again.  Lord Peter is brilliant, cultured, polite and vulnerable - the perfect hero.  He is taken care of by the faithfull Bunter (his bat man in the trenches) and spends a long time wooing the crime writer Harriet Vane.  Did Dorothy think of herself as Harriet?  Did she secretly wish that she had her very own Lord Peter?  Who knows.