Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Vane) - Softcover

Sayers, Dorothy L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062196537 ISBN 13: 9780062196538

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks, 2012

Synopsis

"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." --Times Literary Supplement

The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction's most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers's work, praising her "great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail." The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Gaudy Night features an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. Gaudy Night takes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet's alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.

About this title

Review:

"A royal performance."--The Spectator

"Very skillfull writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with ease and grace."--Saturday Review

"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself."--Times Literary Supplement (London)

"[Sayers] brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit."--P.D. James

"One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century."--Los Angeles Times

"Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself."--Chicago Tribune

"So excitingly good in its field, so brilliantly planned and so excellently written, that even the weariest able minds and the jumpiest nerves should react pleasingly to it."--New York Times

From the Publisher:

A full cast dramatisation starring the wonderful Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey in a role that he has made his own both on television and radio. Joanna David plays Wimsey's alta-ego and is a magnificent Harriet Vane. For any Sayers/Lord Peter Wimsey fan the end of the piece is truly moving. The release also provides bonus material from P D James and Jill Paton Walsh, and it is fascinating to hear the opinions of two of our leading crime writers discussing Dorothy L Sayers work with their unique insight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062196537
• ISBN 13: 9780062196538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544