Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.
The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. However, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti, and wanton vandalism. Despite the dons' reluctance to share the secret with an outsider, Harriet convinces them to let her bring in Lord Peter Wimsey to assist the investigation—but his involvement is not without complications, both personal and professional.
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GaudyNight (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane. The dons of Harriet...
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John appeared in the BBC2 drama series A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery: GaudyNight as Miss Burrows. She also appeared in the BBC's adaptation of John le...
Mystery, the BBC's 1987 productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and GaudyNight (all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels). In 1988 he played Theodore...
fiction novel The Tower and The Dream. In Dorothy Sayers's novel GaudyNight, Bess of Hardwick is referred to as the mother of Mary, Countess of Shrewsbury...
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bid to see if female student scores would improve. The detective novel GaudyNight by Dorothy L. Sayers, herself one of the first women to gain an academic...
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for a few days while repairs are carried out, Wimsey helps ring an all-night peal on the church bells after William Thoday is struck down with influenza...
Medici several times in his writings. Dorothy L. Sayers in her novel GaudyNight has Harriet Vane discover that Peter Wimsey is reading Religio Medici...
key to the code is the sonnet which she started and Peter completed in GaudyNight. The decoded message says that Peter and Bunter have accomplished their...
for the whole parish, including his music hall impressions. 1934: In GaudyNight, Bunter plays a minor part. He is allowed to use his camera and find...
books in several Lord Peter Wimsey novels, specifically Strong Poison, GaudyNight and Busman's Honeymoon In "'He Cometh and He Passeth By!'" by H. Russell...
Horace in their non-utilitarian stances. In the Dorothy L. Sayers novel GaudyNight (1935), Miss Lydgate criticises her former pupil Harriet's popular biography...
sermon-giving revivalist. Two of Graham's pieces—Cave of Heart (1946) and Night Journey (1947)—display her interest in not only Greek mythology but also...
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