http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/10/sayers_hangmans.php Comments on Sayers, Dorothy L.: (09) Hangman's Holiday en Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:46 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss David Tate wrote on October 3, 2006 at 12:32 PM: <p>Me too.</p> <p>The only Wimsey short story I care for at all is the one involving wine-tasting expertise. I'm an amateur wine snob, and it amuses me out of proportion to its merits.</p> <p>The most annoying Wimsey short, to me, is the clever dining-room mystery that hinges on needing to know a crucial obsolete fact about British telephone exchanges.</p> <p>I'm afraid my reaction to Montague Egg is to immediately forget the details of any story I read. I suppose that says something. I wonder if Egg was Sayers's attempt at writing like Chesterton? I can see old Gilbert Keith having a grand time with a character like Egg...</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/10/sayers_hangmans.php#c25958 Kate wrote on October 3, 2006 at 8:59 PM: <p>Like the cricket game in _MMA_, the telephone bit indicates to me that Sayers wasn't writing for a future audience. (I'm not sure I'm remembering which telephone bit--I might be mixing it up with another story altogether. But it hardly matters.)</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2006/10/sayers_hangmans.php#c26189