Read "The Documents in the Case" by Dorothy L. Sayers online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
This damned business of Lathom's.
People write books about murders, and the nice young men and women in them enjoy the job of detecting. It is a good game and I like reading the books. But the emotions of the nice young people are so well-regulated, or so perfunctory, or something. They don't feel like worms and get put off their dinners when they have succeeded in squeezing a damaging admission out of a friend. They don't seem to suffer from fits of retching terror for fear they should find out something definite. Nor, while struggling with these complicated miseries, do they ever have to fulfil contracts with publishers. Sometimes they are filled with a stern sorrow -- a nice, Brutus-like sentiment. I envy their nerves.