Reading The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club | Alexandria
Read The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers. Discovering that a gentleman died unnoticed for hours in his club chair reveals how easily death can masquerade as sleep in polite society. Sayers' masterful mystery uses this unsettling premise to expose how social conventions mask darker truths - upending assumptions about civility's protective power and showing how performative propriety enables violence to hide in plain sight.