Gaudy Night ( Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Paperback) )
Contributor(s): Sayers, Dorothy L (Author)
ISBN: 0061043494 EAN: 9780061043499
Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
Language(s): English
Pub Date: April 01, 1995
In this Lord Peter Wimsey whodunit, mystery writer Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy". But the festivities are haunted by a series of ghastly warnings which threaten murder. Soon Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey, find themselves ensnared in a nightmare of terror. Originally published in 1936.
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional British
-England -Mystery fiction
-Oxford (England) -Private investigators
-Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character) -Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)
Dewey: FIC
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Paperback)
512 pages
Review Quotes:
"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayer's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." -- "Times Literary Supplement (London)"Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself."-- "Chicago Tribune"Very skillful writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with eases and grace."-- "Saturday Review"A royal performance."-- "The Spectator
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy, " the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.
When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy," the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters -- including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.
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