- Fiction, Private investigators, Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character), Harriet Vane (Fictitious character)
Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by mid-book. The romantic tensions between Harriet and Peter are explored. Gaudy Night is rich with literary allusions and is beautifully written.
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Classical in form, meticulous, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- First published
- June 1993
- Pages
- 469
- Publisher
- Presses universitaires du Septentrion, New English Library Ltd, New English Library
- Editions
- 72
- Language
- English, French, German
- ISBN
- 9781609982034
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- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
- Harriet Vane (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)
- Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character)
- Large type books
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Wimsey, peter, lord (fictitious character), fiction
- England, fiction
- Krimi
“Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and started out into Mecklenburg Square.”
An English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist.
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