Kudos to Jane for finding this. Mystery writer P.D. James has a piece in the Wall Street Journal in which she lists the (in her view) five best mystery novels. I’ve only read two of them, Josephine Tey’s The Franchise Affair and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Murder Must Advertise, both of which are certainly very good. I suspect that the others (two from the 1940’s and one from just a few years ago) are equally worth looking into.
The View from the Foothills
A tiny principality in the Commonwealth of Letters
The View from the Foothills 
Well, I’ve only read Murder Must Advertise, but I’ve read all of P.D. James’s mysteries and enjoyed them so I wonder if I’d like the other four on her list. Will you read them and review them here?
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The problem will likely be finding them. I’d not even heard of any of the other three before, and two of them have likely been out of print for ages. We’ll have to see.
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