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 Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers
Description: ISBN 0450021548 / Author: Dorothy L. Sayers / Genre: Crime / Thriller / D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers. Newest Review: ... admired by Lord Peter Wimsey, is asked by the Dean of Shrewsbury College, Oxford, her former college, to investigate a series ... more  ... of anonymous letters that members of staff have been receiving. Harriet herself had received one during a gaudy, or students' reunion, at the college earlier in the year and so was intrigued enough to temporarily move to Oxford to work on the problem. She finds that the perpetrator is becoming more and more violent - causing damage to the buildings. There is concern that the next step will be murder and in fact one student who had received letters tried to kill herself, but was stopped in time.
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Gaudy Night - Dorothy L. Sayers: A Lord Peter Wimsey novel (717 words)
by sunmeilan - written on 07.03.06 (Very useful, 111 readings)
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Introduction Dorothy L Sayers, famous for whodunnits, was crowned as one of the Queens of Crime, along with Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh. Although some of her books have been televised in relatively recent years, she no longer seems to be quite as well-known as Agatha Christie. However, as a fan of crime fiction, I have always loved her books and would like to see them more appreciated. The main detective in her books is Lord Peter Wimsey, who is not a policeman, but rather a private sleuth who also happens to be very high-bred and wealthy. The author Dorothy L Sayers was born in 1893 and her father was headmaster at Christchurch Cathedral ...
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