{"product_id":"gaudy-night-a-lord-peter-wimsey-mystery-with-harriet-vane-isbn-9780061043499","title":"Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane","description":"\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e is now back in print with an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. \u003cem\u003eGaudy Night \u003c\/em\u003etakes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWhen 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. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Very skillfull writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with ease and grace.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A royal performance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Sayers] brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eP.D. James\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperTorch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889135546597,"sku":"NP9780061043499","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061043499.jpg?v=1730230594","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/gaudy-night-a-lord-peter-wimsey-mystery-with-harriet-vane-isbn-9780061043499","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}