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Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

Autor Dorothy L. Sayers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2012
Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.” —Times Literary Supplement
The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night features an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, 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.

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ISBN-13: 9780062196538
ISBN-10: 0062196537
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper Paperbacks

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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.

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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)
“[Sayers] brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.” — P.D. James
“One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century.” — Los Angeles Times
“So excitingly good in its field, so brilliantly planned and so excellently written, that even the weariest able minds and the jumpiest nerves should react pleasingly to it.” — New York Times
“Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself.” — Chicago Tribune
“Very skillfull writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with ease and grace.” — Saturday Review
“A royal performance.” — The Spectator

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The twelfth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by actress Dame Harriet Mary Walter, DBE - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries. 

Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . .

At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the 'Gaudy' celebrations.

But soon, Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help.