Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

by Sayers, Dorothy L.
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ISBN: 9780062957467
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"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself."--Times Literary Supplement (London)

Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night takes mystery writer Harriet Vane and her paramour and dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey to Oxford University, Harriet's alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats. Now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
  • ISBN: 9780062957467
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 6.90 x 1.60
  • Number Of Pages: 576
  • Publication Year: 2019

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