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When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, 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. This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)Ĭrime, England, fiction, Lord Peter Wimsey (Fictional character), mystery, private investigators, female detectives

Gaudy night by dorothy l sayers