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Honestly the mystery itself in this book is probably only a 3-star mystery, but I had so much fun with the characters and the rich details and descriptions throughout, the overall book itself is 5-stars from me.
This is a book that has popped up on my radar repeatedly for years now, and I never picked it up because it is technically #12 in the Peter Wimsey series and I didn't want to commit to 11 other books to get to it. When I found out earlier this year that there are just four books in the se ...more
This is a book that has popped up on my radar repeatedly for years now, and I never picked it up because it is technically #12 in the Peter Wimsey series and I didn't want to commit to 11 other books to get to it. When I found out earlier this year that there are just four books in the se ...more
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I think this may be Sayers' most famous work, and for good reason. It's also an interesting one to read as a modern feminist. It may have been written 80 years ago--but the more things change, the more they stay the same, and whatnot. Anyway, this one is primarily from Harriet's perspective (yay!) and finds her back at her old Oxford women's college trying to track down a poison pen/vandal plaguing the campus--and it ...more
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I think this may be Sayers' most famous work, and for good reason. It's also an interesting one to read as a modern feminist. It may have been written 80 years ago--but the more things change, the more they stay the same, and whatnot. Anyway, this one is primarily from Harriet's perspective (yay!) and finds her back at her old Oxford women's college trying to track down a poison pen/vandal plaguing the campus--and it ...more
Did not give a fig about whoever was writing those damned notes! The reason to read this is to delight in all the delicious bluestocking details about life at an Oxford women's college.
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Nov 11, 2010
bijal
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Dec 14, 2010
Flora
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it was amazing
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