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[kaitou]

Last night I finished Dorothy L. Sayer's 'Whose Body' and I really, really loved it. It certainly doesn't hurt that Lord Peter is a WWI vet that's just a touch traumatized. And I liked that that fact was actually relevant to the plot of the book, and not just to give the character an interesting background/flaw. I was a little annoyed by the French at the end, even if I wasn't surprised by it. But otherwise it was a completely satisfying and well written novel.

One of the conversations in the book about the nature of investigation popped into my head when I was talking to a coworker about some paperwork, and made me think there ought to be a detective who's an Auditor or Consultant...using the 5 Why method or an Ishikawa chart to solve crimes. I called my dad to talk about the idea, but he wasn't nearly as enthusiastic about it as my joke back a few months ago about Romance Novels set in a manufacturing plant. Go Figure.

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[m-steelgrave.livejournal.com]

I was a little annoyed by the French at the end, even if I wasn't surprised by it.

I'm sure everyone at the end of both world wars felt the same way.

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

HA!


It wasn't as bad as Busman's Honeymoon where there was almost an entire chapter in French. But it still irked me that there was no way to know what exactly was being said.

[edwired.livejournal.com]

Didn't the FBI start out as auditors and accountants?

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

Dorothy Sayer! We wound up reading her translations of the Divine Comedy in my course in college, and so one of the earliest classes was spent learning about Mrs. Sayer herself. She was awesome. I sincerely think that our professor wanted to turn us into fangirls, and this was helped along by the fact that one of my good friends who was with me in that class was a Dorothy Sayer fan already because of her mystery novels. ...so I'm just going to say if you haven't read any of her other stuff, it's apparently worth it. She made the Divine Comedy withstandable, which is saying something, so I believe she was really a superhero in secret.

There's also a really great shot of her crossdressing for a role in a play that always reminds me of one of Flidget's characters, which only helps with that.