Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Harper & Row, New York Publication Date: 1936. The ghosts float across the text as metaphors that are not merely decorative, as elements of style, but fundamental to the plot, which has to do, crucially, with language, written and spoken: language stolen, repressed, destroyed. Title: Gaudy Night Author: Sayers, Dorothy L. Rereading it now I see it as a ghost story, its form demanded by its subject matter. HauntingsĪged 14, I read Gaudy Night simply as a tantalizing romance masquerading as a thriller. Reviewed by Michèle Roberts in Slightly Foxed Issue 63. Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate. However, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti and wanton vandalism. The dons of Harriet Vane’s alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers’s own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. Gaudy Night is the 12th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order.
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