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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey #10)
R36.00
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Obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy greeted Harriet Vane on her return to Oxford for the ‘Gaudy’ celebrations.
A graduate of ten years before and now a successful novelist, this should have been a pleasant, nostalgic visit for her—but someone had other, depraved ideas. She asks her lover, Lord Peter Wimsey, for help.
Dorothy Sayers’ brilliant detective faces an explosive situation, with odds as great as murder against him.
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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| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
|---|---|
| Publisher | New English Library |
| Place | London |
| Year | 1972 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | Fair |
| Comments | Forward lean; page edges yellowed; edgewear. |
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