Gaudy Night
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reading september 2005
reading september 2005
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BR Myst
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~sigh~ I just absolutely LOVE Lord Peter Wimsey, and fell even more so in this episode of the series. If you are going to read this, you may want to start at the beginning of the series and work your way forward.
Miss Harriet Vane, whose history I won't go into here, receives an invitation to return to her alma mater at Oxford's Shrewsbury College and participate in a reunion of alumna called Gaudy Night. While reminiscing and reliving her days there, she comes across a rather graphic and threatening picture which she hurriedly dismisses. After the days at Shrewsbury are over, and she has returned home, only to some time later find herself invited once again to Oxford because there has been a spate (I love that word!!) of poison-pen letters and capricious damage directed at several of the professors there. Harriett agrees to go, and once there, realizes that whoever is making these attacks and sending the vitriolic hate mail has to be someone very unbalanced. After she tries without results to solve the mystery, who else but Lord Peter to the rescue?
I realize this is very brief, but actually this is one of my favorite books in the series, and needs to be experienced without any further introduction to the story. I highly recommend this one!
BR Myst
alpha
~sigh~ I just absolutely LOVE Lord Peter Wimsey, and fell even more so in this episode of the series. If you are going to read this, you may want to start at the beginning of the series and work your way forward.
Miss Harriet Vane, whose history I won't go into here, receives an invitation to return to her alma mater at Oxford's Shrewsbury College and participate in a reunion of alumna called Gaudy Night. While reminiscing and reliving her days there, she comes across a rather graphic and threatening picture which she hurriedly dismisses. After the days at Shrewsbury are over, and she has returned home, only to some time later find herself invited once again to Oxford because there has been a spate (I love that word!!) of poison-pen letters and capricious damage directed at several of the professors there. Harriett agrees to go, and once there, realizes that whoever is making these attacks and sending the vitriolic hate mail has to be someone very unbalanced. After she tries without results to solve the mystery, who else but Lord Peter to the rescue?
I realize this is very brief, but actually this is one of my favorite books in the series, and needs to be experienced without any further introduction to the story. I highly recommend this one!
