The result is a work of art.' - Richard T. Downing succeeds since she is so completely attuned to the power of culture and language, not only in Sayers, but in herself as well. While many students of Sayers have uncritically rendered a flat, one-dimensional version of the writer, Downing presents a beautifully nuanced portrait of the writer, drawn from the many phases and loves of Sayer's life. 'Marked by beautiful writing and depth of insight, this book provides an important corrective to previous scholarship on Dorothy L. She earned that title largely on the strength of eleven extraordinary. SAYERS v those letters any clear mental concept of the animal. Sayers (don’t forget the middle initial, please, she was most adamant about that). But they are not literate in the sense of deriving from. Both devotees and doubters will find here a Sayers who is a solo performer but also part of an impressive troupe.' - Wesley Kort, Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University and author of Place and Space in Modern Fiction (2004) In the Golden Age of British detective fiction in the 1920s and 1930s, four women were universally considered the four QueensAgatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. The first is an address she gave to a Women’s Society in 1938. And a performing Sayers is suited for the postmodernist stage where Downing puts her among assorted, current theorists and critics. Sayers’ Are Women Human is a collection of two essays. A performing Sayers is an artist, Christian, and thinker who holds together tradition and change, uncertainty and faith, and creativity and discipline. 'Under the trope of 'performance,' Downing deploys a Sayers that is as versatile, elusive, and intriguing as its original must have been.

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