The Immortal Harriet Vane

by Sandra Parshall  Agatha Christie gave us the world’s most famous female sleuth, the village spinster Miss Marple, who knitted and gardened and solved crimes by observation and carefully placed questions. But Dorothy L. Sayers gave us Harriet Vane, the sharp-tongued, fiercely intelligent, and stubbornly independent mystery author who kept Lord Peter Wimsey dangling through several