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Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1995, Paperback, Reprint) 
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1995, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1995, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061043494
ISBN-13: 9780061043499
Product ID: EPID25712
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:1995-04-01
Edition Description:Reprint

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Height:7.0 in
Width:4.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:8.8 oz

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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.

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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