Apropos of nothing except that I've just been reading your reviews and then Starlady's and Sarah Monette's posts on the Peter Wimsey books: what authors, if any, would you recommend to me for their ability to describe characters (physically or psychologically) in a really memorable fashion? You've got this wonderful talent for coming at that from an oblique direction that somehow winds up amazingly on point, and then there's the over-the-top line in the cricket match in Murder Must Advertise where it talks about Peter "opening up wrathful shoulders" and going to town on the game, and that, that thing there <waves hands inarticulately> I want to get better at it. Dunnett can do it; Sayers can do it; I need more authors to study and think about how they can evoke such a vivid image in such a brief space, while using descriptors that are (for me, anyway) wholly unexpected.