Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Secrets, Lord Peter Wimsey is an immortal amateur train created by Dorothy L Sayers. When Harriet Wayne attends the Oxford meeting known as Gaudi, a faint academic environment is haunted by a rash of bizarre antiquities: meticulous obscenities, burnt effects, and letters written in poisoned pens, "Ask your boyfriend if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes are threatened with murder; all of them are absolutely scary; however, despite their bleak nature, they are all perfectly formulated. And Harriet finds herself in the spell of the nightmare of romance and horror, with only the smallest crumbs of clues to challenge her powers of discovery and the powers of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.
