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, the dashing private investigator Lord Peter Wimsey. When Harriet 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. Now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. Sayers’ popular Lord Peter Wimsey series. 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. Sayers’s Gaudy Night takes mystery writer Harriet Vane to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find herself the target of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats. Gaudy Night (1935) is the tenth title in Dorothy L. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.”- Times Literary Supplement (London)ĭorothy L. Gaudy Night (Michael Simpson) - Episode Three clandestienfilm 15K subscribers Subscribe 384K views 9 years ago The third Book with Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey - this time set in. “ Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels.
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