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.

Rose Elliot

 
















Here are a few books by my favourite cookery writer - Rose Elliot. Rose Elliot’s recipes are straight forward family recipes which produce consistent results and are even appreciated by non vegetarians. One is called Thrifty Fifty and is full of recipes which cost 50p when the book first came out. My mother bought it in 1977 and it is the source of her famous nut roast recipe. As you can see from the page, it has been used a lot!

Dornford Yates

Nobody talks about Dornford Yates any more and you have to scour second hand bookstores to find him.  His books were very much of his age, the golden age.  The men were square jawed heros and the women were mainly there to offer moral support or to be damsels in distress.  There are car chases and evil gangs to defeat but you can always be assured that the good will end happily and the bad unhappily.