And while Dorothy L Sayers is an "exceptionally good detective story writer and a delightfully witty one", she, too, comes in for some unexpected censure from Christie, who writes that Sayers' creation Lord Peter Wimsey is "an example of a good man spoilt". His face, says Christie, "was originally piquantly described as 'emerging from his top hat like a maggot emerging from a gorgonzola cheese'", but Wimsey sadly "became through the course of years merely a 'handsome hero', and admirers of his early prowess can hardly forgive his attachment to, and lengthy courtship of, a tiresome young woman called Harriet".
If you love Agatha Christie, you'll be thrilled that her long-lost essay on British crime fiction in 1945 has been found and published.
Sadly, she didn't think much of Lord Peter Wimsey's Harriet.
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