Harriet Vane returns with trepidation to her alma mater, Shrewsbury College, Oxford to attend the Gaudy dinner.
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. 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' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane. SO GLAD you made this available.Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Only slight problem is that the volume wavers at times which makes me think it is about to fade out to nothing, but then it comes back to normal. And the CDs available are rare and have damaged areas. "I was thrilled to find a streaming version of this marvelous Dorothy Sayers narrated my Ian Carmichael. And when the mystery is finally solved, she is faced with an agonizing decision: Should she, after five years of rejecting his proposals, finally agree to marry Lord Peter?
But which of the apparently rational, respectable dons could be committing such crazed acts? When a desperate undergraduate, at her wits’ end after receiving a series of particularly savage letters, attempts to drown herself, Harriet decides that it is time to ask Lord Peter Wimsey for help. Some of the notes threaten murder and one of them involves a long Latin quotation, which makes Harriet suspect that the perpetrator is probably a member of the Senior Common Room.
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.”
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