Book description
The sixth book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by actor Edward Petherbridge - a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries.
'D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph
Can Lord Peter Wimsey prove that…
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The only thing I love more than a classic Golden Age mystery is one with romance and life-or-death stakes. Even better, heroine Harriet Vane doesn’t just sit there waiting for Lord Peter to save her–she jumps right in and works to save herself.
She’s at least as smart as he is and much stronger and more cynical. I love that the guy is the hopeless romantic here. And–no spoilers–the ending is honest and real without being a let-down. Just one of my favorite reads ever.
From Kathleen's list on brilliant women sleuths who catch killers.
This is not the first book in which Lord Peter appears, but it is the first of the books that include Harriet Vane, with whom he falls hopelessly in seemingly unrequited love when he saves her from the noose. Written in 1930, Lord Peter is an actual gentleman with all the deceptively shallow mannerisms and slang of a young Bertie Wooster about him, but he of course is covering up his blinding intelligence and his very vulnerable heart. Besides collecting rare books, playing faultless Bach on the piano ,and struggling with bouts of shell shock from the trenches in France,…
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