tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843736442009425916.post2934241189321796173..comments2023-09-15T12:32:12.503+02:00Comments on Mysteries, Short and Sweet: Miraculous Mysteries (ed. Martin Edwards)Christian_Henrikssonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13013383718388416698noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843736442009425916.post-33278200718645559832018-03-11T15:55:21.088+01:002018-03-11T15:55:21.088+01:00Yeah, I know how you feel about Sayers -- this is ...Yeah, I know how you feel about Sayers -- this is partly why I'm only taking her on in short story or portmanteau form: to build up a resistance and so prepare myself for Have His Carcase...!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843736442009425916.post-71155860004913609812018-03-11T12:58:12.174+01:002018-03-11T12:58:12.174+01:00Your feelings on the Innes story are sort of the o...Your feelings on the Innes story are sort of the ones I reserve for stuff by Gilbert Adair, Paul Auster and the like. You know, people who sneer at mysteries and then try to write something that shows what they think the mystery genre is about, which in turn just shows how much they DON'T understand it.<br /><br />The Innes story is just a bit of harmless leg-pulling to me.<br /><br />As for Sayers, I probably should re-read her stuff. It's just that I remember how tough going her last few Vane books were - I especially think of "Gaudy Night" and "Busman's Holiday" here - so it's hard to work up the courage to get in there again.Christian_Henrikssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13013383718388416698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8843736442009425916.post-48321913381860002262018-03-10T22:54:18.878+01:002018-03-10T22:54:18.878+01:00Yeah, we broadly agree here -- apart from your not...Yeah, we broadly agree here -- apart from your not utterly disdaining 'The Sands of Thyme'...man, I do loathe that story so, and have no idea how it ended up in so many years anthologies.<br /><br />I enjoyed the Sayers a lot, too, but that is at least in part to me starting to mellow on Sayers in general. The aspects of her writing that vexed me so much before no longer cause quite the same irritation, and I really liked this story and her contributions to The Scoop and Behind the Screen. But I'm veering off topic.<br /><br />'Invisible Weapon' is, incidentally, the only impossible crime story I'm aware of Olde writing. The other Rowland Hern stories have been collected by Ramble House and make an entertaining read, but that's definitely the cream of them for my money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com