Caroline: Towards the end of Dorothy L. Sayers's 1930 novel Strong Poison, her sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is feeling stumped. He's tackled a tricky poisoning case with all the verve and enthusiasm that readers of the previous four Wimsey books had come to expect. He'
13 Nov 2019Caroline: One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other. They were all newly arrived first year students at Somerville College in Oxford, part of a cohort of women undergraduates who were still pushing for full equality at the
30 Oct 2019Caroline: There's a moment in Agatha Christie's 1964 novel A Caribbean Mystery that I think about a lot. Miss Marple, generously sent on a luxury winter holiday to the island of St Honoré by her wealthy novelist nephew, has encountered what she believes to be a
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