My favorite murder mystery author(s)

On The Casual Sociopathy of The Traditional Murder Mystery - Should There Be Such A Thing As A "Comfortable" Murder Mystery?

I've had some interesting conversations on Agatha Christie/Dorothy Sayers/Golden Age murder mysteries on here, so I thought I'd share this article. I think the author is a bit harsh on Christie, to be honest, but she makes some legitimate (if depressing) points.

I think the most interesting point was her comparison of Christie and Sayers:

Dorothy Sayers once said, of the comfortable country house mystery versus a book with feeling, “some readers prefer their detective stories to be of this conventional kind … I believe the future to be with those writers who can contrive to strike the note of sincerity and to persuade us that violence really hurts.” Within her writing, she did exactly that. From the Russian dancer duped into believing himself a Romanov and killed, to the glamorous and easily-led Dian de Momerie in Murder Must Advertise, her victims live, and breathe, and demand our sympathy. And so, too, do their killers. A scene I have never forgotten is Lord Peter Wimsey weeping as the time comes for a killer he uncovered to be hanged.

Thoughts?