Summary
"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.
Additional Information
| Series |
A Lord Peter Wimsey mystery with Harriet Vane Features Lord Peter Wimsey, an aristocrat and amateur detective in Britain in the 1920 and 30s #1 - Whose body? #2 - Clouds of witness #3 - Unnatural death #4 - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club #5 - Strong poison #6 - The Five red herrings #7 - Have his carcase #8 - Murder must advertise #9 - The Nine tailors #10 - Gaudy night #11 - Busman's honeymoon |
| Subjects |
Wimsey, Peter,
-- Lord (Fictitious character),
-- 1890-
-- Fiction.
Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Private investigators -- England -- Oxford -- Fiction. Women detectives -- England -- Oxford -- Fiction. Oxford (England) -- Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Publisher | New York, NY :Bourbon Street Books,2012 |
| Edition | First Bourbon Street Books edition. |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
xii, 528 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN | 9780062196538 0062196537 |
| Other | Classic View |