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Why did she stop writing detective fiction as WW2 approached?

This is the sixth and final episode of Queens of Crime at War, a six part series looking at what the best writers from the golden age of detective fiction did once that period came to an end with the start of the Second World War.

The Pledge Drive gift offer is now over, because we have smashed the 100 member goal already! Thank you so much to all of you existing members who recommended the show to your friends and family, it’s been delightful to welcome them into the club. The gift giving offer was a new thing this year, and despite the technical teething problems it’s been really popular, so I’m definitely going to find a way to bring it back for next holiday season.

But: to say thank you for all your support and effort this year, I’m going to put on a special Christmas livestream just for book club members on December 15th at 6pm UK time. Lots of you got in touch to say they enjoyed the episode with my husband Guy a few weeks ago, so we’re going to host it together, talk a bit about Christmas mysteries, and answer members’ questions. The video will also be available to members to watch back afterwards if you can’t make it live. I’ll be sending out email alerts and posting in the forum about it nearer the time, but for now just get the date in your diary if you’d like to come.

There are very minor spoilers in this episode for the eventual outcome of the Harriet Vane-Peter Wimsey plot line.

Books referenced: — Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L Sayers — The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers — The Floating Admiral by Members of the Detection Club — The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace — Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers — Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers — The Zeal of Thy House by Dorothy L Sayers — Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds — He That Should Come by Dorothy L Sayers — Begin Here: A Wartime Essay by Dorothy L Sayers — Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers —Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh — Striding Folly by Dorothy L Sayers — “The Haunted Policeman” and “Talboys” in Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates by Dorothy L Sayers — The Wimsey Papers by Dorothy L Sayers — The Man Born to Be King by Dorothy L Sayers — The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L Sayers — Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers — Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers — Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers — A Presumption of Death by Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh — Women’s Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power, Resistance by Gill Plain

The original music for this series, “The Case Of The Black Stormcloud”, was created by Martin Zaltz Austwick. Find out more about his work at martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com.

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