speaking timeless and other problems

How to convey that these are not the fields we know. . . it helps to use an attempt at timeless English, in both narration and dialog.  Nothing Chaucer would recognize, of course.  But something Jane Austen could read with clarity.  Ideally something Shakespeare could read without issues.

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Clouds of Witness

Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers

The second Lord Peter novel.  Even opens with an allusion to the first.  And from the vacation with which it opened, Lord Peter learns of another crime that sends him scurrying home:  his brother the Duke has been charged with murder.

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