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Gaudy Night

29 Sunday May 2016

Posted by Paul Kincaid in books

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Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edward Petherbridge, Harriet Walter, Julian Barnes

I said some time ago that Dorothy L. Sayers’s mysteries were at their worst when they concentrated on the mechanics of the crime, and at their best when the crime was an incidental way of focussing upon some social or cultural issue. Gaudy Night, which now completes my reading of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, is the exception that proves the rule. Continue reading →

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