I don't think I'll ever get tired of reading and re-reading anything that Dorothy Sayers has written. (with the exception of her scholarly works - like her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy!) Lord Peter Wimsey is at the very top of my list of fictional characters I would most like to be able to have for a close friend! But I'm afraid it could only be a friendship because after all he is a married man! And this is the book where he first meets his future wife - the savvy Harriet Vane, writer of mystery novels who has been wrongly accused of poisoning her former lover. Lord Peter, ever on the scene when there is a mystery to be solved, immediately suspects she is innocent and steps in to prove it, especially since he has decided that she is the woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Harriet on the other hand, isn't so sure and as it turns out it takes two more books (Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night)before she makes up her mind. Like every other mystery I've ever read, the mystery part eludes me. I can never figure them out - even when all the clues fall into place at the end I'm usually still puzzled. But I love the characters and the time period and the wonderful way Dorothy Sayers has of drawing me right into the thick of things. I'll probably read this (and all the other wonderful Lord Peter mysteries) again and again - and each time I'll be just as confused as always but just as much in love with Lord Peter!

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