Carole Vanderhoof highlights Sayers’ thinking on themes like pride, belief, and envy… With bracing wit, Sayers continues to entertain and challenge.

Scholarly and quietly poetic.… Vanderhoof arranges Sayers’ writings in a subtle crescendo, culminating in her commentary on art and Christianity. To an age that views religion – especially Christianity – as irrational and oppressive, Sayers makes a critical case for reassessment.

A very important anthology gleaned from different novels, plays, and other writings of Dorothy L. Sayers with a focus on religious and theological themes. For the person seeking out those themes, one need no longer turn to various books; Ms. Vanderhoof has done that research for us…. The book has an excellent chronology of Sayers’ life, plus a selected bibliography at the back.

Sayers’ detective stories are still bringing great enjoyment—and the uplifting contact with a brilliant and wise mind—to millions; and those who know her apologetic works have the added advantage of her more explicit thoughts on the faith…. Plough is helping revive those works for a new audience, and by tying them to her fiction, showing that the light of Christ shines through them all.

With the growing interest in Sayers studies, this is a timely and helpful volume.

That [Sayers] was a Christian apologist à la C. S. Lewis is made manifest in this generous selection of excerpts from her wide-ranging work…. This multifaceted volume is sure to expand Sayers’ reputation, not only as a writer but also as a thinker.