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Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane Mass market paperbound - 1995
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Readers praised Sayers’s polished prose, the vivid Oxford women’s-college setting, and Harriet Vane’s nuanced growth and evolving relationship with Lord Peter. They noted the book foregrounds character and themes—especially women’s roles—over puzzle plotting, with literary allusions and period customs that can be opaque. Some found the pace long or meandering and felt it works best alongside Strong Poison and Busman’s Honeymoon, where the emotional payoff lands even if Harriet’s role across the series still feels uneven.
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Harriet Vane sat at her writing-table and started out into Mecklenburg Square.
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- Title Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane
- Author Dorothy L. Sayers
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperTorch, NY
- Publication date April 1, 1995
- ISBN 9780061043499 / 0061043494
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 6.75 x 4.19 x 1.28 in (17.15 x 10.64 x 3.25 cm)
- Reading level 870
- Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Private investigators - England
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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