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Gaudy night

  • Dorothy L. Sayers

3.57

7 ratings

Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by mid-book. The romantic tensions between Harriet and Peter are explored. Gaudy Night is rich with literary allusions and is beautifully written.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Private investigators
  • Lord Wimsey, Peter (Fictitious character)
  • Harriet Vane (Fictitious character)
  • Women detectives
  • Wimsey, Peter, Lord (Fictitious character)
  • Vane, Harriet (Fictitious character)
  • Large type books
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Wimsey, peter, lord (fictitious character), fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Krimi
  • Krminalroman
  • Detektivroman
  • crime novel
  • campus
  • university
  • college
  • womens' college
  • Frauenbildung
  • female education
  • Frauenrechte
  • women's rights
  • students
  • Whodunnit
  • marriage
  • social roles
  • social restrictions
  • Emanzipation
  • emancipation
  • Familie
  • Studentenstreiche
  • students' pranks
  • Mode
  • fashion
  • Kleidungsregeln
  • clothing rules
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
  • Vane, harriet (fictitious character), fiction
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About the author

  • Dorothy L. Sayers

    13 June 1893 - 17 December 1957

    3.73

    81 ratings · 356 works

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    Rowohlt TB-V., Rnb.

    January 1, 2001

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    Rowohlt TB-V. Rnb.

    March 1, 2000

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    Rainer Wunderlich Verlag Hermann Leins

    1968

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    Harper Paperbacks

    Jun 13, 2016

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AudioGO

May 17, 2011

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    Harper Paperbacks

    Oct 16, 2012

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    1985

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    HarperTorch

    April 1, 1995

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    HarperTorch

    April 1, 1995

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    New English Library Ltd

    March 1, 1987

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    Unabridged edition

    The Audio Partners, Mystery Masters

    January 9, 2006

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    Harper

    1960-01-01

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    1968-01-01

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    Independently Published

    2018

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    2020

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    2020

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    2021

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    2022

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    2021

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2012

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    1987

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    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

    2012

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    HarperCollins Publishers

    2019

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    Independently Published

    2020

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    2020

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    Presses universitaires du Septentrion

    2012

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    2021

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    2020

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    2020

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2016

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    V. Gollancz

    1935

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    Tandem Library

    April 1995

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    Harpercollins

    October 1993

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    Harpercollins

    October 1993

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    Rowohlt Tb.

    January 1, 1983

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    V. Gollancz. ltd.

    1958

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    G.K. Hall

    1981

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    10th ed.

    Gollancz

    1939