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      Gaudy Night

      by Dorothy L. Sayers
      Published
      Jan 1935
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      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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      A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Book 13

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      When 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 suitor, Lord Peter Wimsey.

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      Book 13
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      Suspense

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      Amateur Sleuth

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      Locked Room Mystery

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