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the best book in her mystery series. she looks at the difference between living in the mind or in the heart. my favorite!
it starts a little slow for sake of setting up relationships but quickly pulls you along after that. lord peter is a charming man.
So good Just finished. So good gets you mind thinking and Lord Peter a true gentlemen in the old sense!
I just finished this too. I noticed the contrast in the different kinds of thinking among the females in the story. Since the venue is a women's college there were many. I especially liked the love interest of Harriet and Lord Peter. Although that part of the plot didn't fill up the preponderence of the text it was always underlying - and to me it was the most important cliffhanger.
Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery (Mystery Masters)
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers
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 — and all are dreadful concoctions of a sick mind — yet in spite of their deplorable, criminal nature, the letters are perfectly worded. Soon, Harriet finds herself ensnared in a ... read more
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