{"product_id":"9780062196538","title":"Gaudy Night : A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Dorothy L. Sayers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.” —\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work, praising her “great fertility of invention, ingenuity, and wonderful eye for detail.” The third Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, \u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e features an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master. \u003cem\u003eGaudy Night \u003c\/em\u003etakes Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter, to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find themselves the targets of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eGaudy Night\u003c\/em\u003e stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.”\u003cbr\u003e“[Sayers] brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.”\u003cbr\u003e“One of the greatest mystery story writers of this century.”\u003cbr\u003e“So excitingly good in its field, so brilliantly planned and so excellently written, that even the weariest able minds and the jumpiest nerves should react pleasingly to it.”\u003cbr\u003e“Dorothy Sayers is in a class by herself.”\u003cbr\u003e“Very skillfull writing. Miss Sayers has done a real tour de force, and done it with ease and grace.”\u003cbr\u003e“A royal performance.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780062196538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41065009643726,"sku":"9780062196538","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780062196538.jpg?v=1652120035","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780062196538","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}