Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1986, Hardcover, Reprint) 
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1986, Hardcover, Reprint)
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1986-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060550228
ISBN-13: 9780060550226
Product ID: EPID1307949
Description: While most contemporary mysteries kick off with a dead body, and gallop along at a headlong pace, GAUDY NIGHT, first published in 1935, is a far more mannered work. Rather than focus on violence, this classic novel uses both the mystery ...
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Synopsis
While most contemporary mysteries kick off with a dead body, and gallop along at a headlong pace, GAUDY NIGHT, first published in 1935, is a far more mannered work. Rather than focus on violence, this classic novel uses both the mystery and the personal lives of the characters to debate whether it's possible for a woman to balance the demands of the intellectual life and of a successful marriage. The detective novelist Harriet Vane returns to Shrewsbury, her Oxford alma mater. The Dean has asked her to track down a "Poison Pen," a perpetrator of a series of venomous notes and acts of petty vandalism. The "Poison Pen" seems to be trying to ruin the reputation of Shrewsbury, and, by extension, that of women's education as a whole. The evidence suggests that the guilty party must be someone at the college: a maid, a student, or possibly even one of the professors. Harriet can't identify the culprit and is obliged to summon Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur sleuth who, despite Harriet's many rejections, still wants to marry her. The central issue of the book--the tension between a woman's personal and professional life--remains relevant today.

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Publication Date:1986-09-01
Edition Description:Reprint

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Attending a college reunion at Oxford, Harriet Vane receives mysterious messages that call her a murderer.

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