Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Author: Dorothy L. SayersNarrator: Edward Petherbridge
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-10
ISBN: 0886462843
Publisher: DH Audio
Book Reviews of Gaudy Night
Book Review: A period piece, and not in a good way
Summary: 1 Stars
I have no credentials as a reviewer of mysteries, as I seldom read them. I picked this one up because I knew Sayers had translated Dante. "Gaudy Night" was awful. I hated the class snobbery, the bickerings of the academics, Lord Wimsey's monocle, and Harriet Vane's ditherings about love. I felt sorry for the perpetrator; in the same shoes, if I had to deal with these people, I might have done the same! As a snapshot of pre- World War II Oxford and of the anxieties that attended women who sought out a university education and independent lives, it is, I guess, of some interest. Why is it that Austen, a writer I love, doesn't seem dated at all, while this book is frozen in amber?
Summary of Gaudy Night
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.Mystery Books
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