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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 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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Harriet Vane returns to Oxford for a reunion of the women's college. Naturally, murder and mayhem ensue. Eventually Lord Peter arrives, on his own errand, and gets caught up on the grisly events. Vane and Wimsey spend some old-fashioned quality time as well.
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Very old fashioned but really enjoyable book about a woman mystery writer in England during the 1930's. She goes to a college reunion and gets involved in a mystery
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The English mysteries are always the best mysteries. And Dorothy Sayers myteries are the best of the best. This one has it all, bizarre pranks, scrawled obscenties, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters. Now what could be better on a cold winter's night?
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This is a murder mystery based on Harriet Vane who returns to Oxford for a reunion. It's been a while since I read the book. I read it in a Detective Fiction course. It is a true mystery.
All the Lord Peter Wimsey/ Harriet Vane books are great, and Gaudy Night is one of Sayers' best!
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