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Dorothy Sayers with an aggressive feminist voice. WOMEN! They might contribute to society if they so choose.
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
By far my favorite Peter Wimsey mystery, because it's mostly about Harriet Vane. It's also a meditation on the choices women face in society: marriage? children? academia? career? And also includes larger themes of love and the power of making your own choices. And also there's a mystery but truthfully who cares - the mystery is just the plot. The rest of the novel is what matters.
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