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While the club initially formed as a social group for writers of detective fiction, it did have an official purpose: to uphold a rigid set of standards for crime fiction, and weed out any potential members who wouldn’t agree to meet them.
Dorothy L. Sayers was a Christian apologist, a great translator and guide to Dante, and a pioneering mystery novelist. Nadya Williams has written a fascinating essay about Sayers and her vocational struggles, including reflections on scholarship in academia as opposed to the scholarship of "public intellectuals."