Gaudy Night Lib/E
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 and one of them involves a long Latin quotation, which makes Harriet suspect that the perpetrator is probably a member of the Senior Common Room. But which of the apparently rational, respectable dons could be committing such crazed acts? When a desperate undergraduate, at her wits' end after receiving a series of particularly savage letters, attempts to drown herself, Harriet decides that it is time to ask Lord Peter Wimsey for help. And when the mystery is finally solved, she is faced with an agonizing decision: Should she, after five years of rejecting his proposals, finally agree to marry Lord Peter?
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Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.
Ian Carmichael (1920-2010) appeared in a vast number of television productions, including The Importance of Being Earnest and the outstandingly successful The World of Wooster series for BBC TV. He portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey in several series for television and starred in two seasons of Strathblair. His film appearances included Lucky Jim, The Lady Vanishes, and Heaven's Above.
I admire her novels...she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail.
-- "Ruth Rendell, praise for the author"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.
-- "P.D. James, praise for the author"Her books are English Literature at its best. Her plots are finely tuned and her Lord Peter Wimsey is delightful.
-- "Times (London)"Narrator Carmichael is an excellent choice to read this mystery...he brings a sly sensibility to his portrayal of the dons of the college and assorted alums.
-- "Booklist"
