HOW FUNNY, A BED; A BED, HOW FUNNY: It took me a few days to be so obsessed with this that I finally Googled it; but now I know: Eiluned Price = Strong Poison. Eglantine Price = Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

You should read both. Even though I’m kind of fed up with Dorothy Sayers now, and have been for a few years–with the exception of The Documents in the Case, which features neither Peter “I Have Fallen in Love With My Creation” Wimsey nor Harriet “And So I Wrote Myself Into This Story” Vane. (The chapter headings in Have His Carcase, from Death’s Jest-Book, are still fantastic, though. Oh, and what is with me and stories about poisonous mushrooms? I count three without even stopping to think. Apparently I mistrust Nature.)

If you care, my favorite Sayerses are, in order: The Documents in the Case; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Have His Carcase; Strong Poison.