"The first feminist mystery novel" - do you agree?

[meditrina]

I found that quotation in wiki (sourced from a master's thesis) about Gaudy Night (1935) by Dorothy L Sayers.

Has anyone here read it? And if so, to what extent would you agree with that description?

Dilys Price - love your commetn about how Harriet does not need MN advice to leave the bastard
The thing about Bunter that bugged me was when the Dowager Duchess was showing Harriet pics of LPW as a boy that Bunter took

Yeah, I never got that bit about the photos either - I have post-rationalised it as the Dowager was talking about the baby photos but Harriet was looking at a set of adult photos and commenting on those and it was just a lack of clarity from the author.

That's my theory and I'm sticking to it

These are my favourite books ever. Introduced to them at university as part of a module on detective fiction, where Gaudy Night was taught from a feminist angle - my copy still has my blinding obvious observations written in the margin.

The biographies of Sayers are fascinating - I recommend 'Such a Strange Lady' by Janet ????

One of my DC is named after the books...not a co-incidence at all!