Early Sayers is less interesting than later Sayers -- I love later Sayers, and even most of her earlier stuff (with a couple of exceptions). the later Sayers has Harriet Vane (and Gaudy Night is one of two books I took--along with Virginia Woolf's ROOM--when I did a study abroad term at oxford), and I love Harriet Vane (who writes murder mysteries). (Tolkien disliked Sayers' work immensely!)