This book tells you two times before you even start reading that there’s something up with it. In the first, we have an introduction written by the lady herself, Dorothy Sayers, describing the immediate resonance and impact this novel had on the genre of mystery writing when it was first published in 1913. She describes how the genre had become stale and through poor stewardship the tropes had becomes cliches. Especially notable is that it became the thing of cheap imitation in pulp publications. She […]