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Very good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Large format paperback. pp vi, 321. ISBN 9780956337498 Foreword by Simon Brett. "Taking Detective Stories Seriously is a collection of the reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), covering mainly the period in which she was a professional reviewer for the Sunday Times from 1933 to 1935. Sayers is not only famous for her successful crime fiction novels, but was also respected and revered for her work as a translator of Dante, her writing on various religious subjects, but was also, as this volume shows, an excellent critic and anthologist of the detective genre at the height of the Golden Age. The volume is edited by Martin Edwards, who also provides a lengthy commentary on Sayers' reviews. He details Sayers critique of several well-known crime fiction authors like John Dickson Carr, H.C. Bailey and other notables of the Golden Age. Edwards also casts light on Sayers' view of the crime fiction genre in general, and her ideas of what a good detective story should be like..." Review at InternationalCrimeFiction About fine.
