![]() ![]() The ghosts float across the text as metaphors that are not merely decorative, as elements of style, but fundamental to the plot, which has to do, crucially, with language, written and spoken: language stolen, repressed, destroyed. Rereading it now I see it as a ghost story, its form demanded by its subject matter. HauntingsĪged 14, I read Gaudy Night simply as a tantalizing romance masquerading as a thriller. Sayers builds upon the basic structure of the mystery story to present a novel considering three separate but interwoven themes. Reviewed by Michèle Roberts in Slightly Foxed Issue 63. ![]() Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate. Gaudy Night A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery BBC RADIO DRAMA: Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. However, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti and wanton vandalism. ![]() ![]() The dons of Harriet Vane’s alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers’s own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. Sayers builds upon the basic structure of the mystery story to present a novel considering three separate but interwoven themes.At first glance, the mysteryostensibly. ![]()
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