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Gaudy night

Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher: New York : Harper, [1936] ©1936
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Mystery writer Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy". But the festivities are haunted by a series of ghastly warnings which threaten murder. Soon Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey, find themselves ensnared in a nightmare of terror.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Mystery fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), 1893-1957.
Gaudy night.
New York, Harper [1960, ©1936]
(OCoLC)643535578
Named Person: Peter Wimsey, Lord (Fictitious character); Peter Wimsey, Lord (Fictitious character)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dorothy L Sayers
OCLC Number: 365665
Description: 469 pages ; 20 cm
Responsibility: by Dorothy L. Sayers.

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Mystery writer Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the "Gaudy". But the festivities are haunted by a series of ghastly warnings which threaten murder. Soon Harriet and her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey, find themselves ensnared in a nightmare of terror.

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