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Hangman's Holiday: A Collection of Short Mysteries (Lord Peter Wimsey # 9)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: August 12, 2016

Finish date: August 31, 2016

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Jul 01, 2021 BrokenTune rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I really loved the short stories in Hangman’s Holiday. More so than even in Lord Peter Views the Body, the stories in this one very much reminded me of the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, and I do not refer to the Holmes stories here necessarily —

There was a dark side to many of the stories, and I loved that.

Overall, I prefer the Wimsey stories to the Egg stories, simply because Egg always ending up in situations where he is involved in an investigation is even more unlikely than Wimsey bei ...more

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Aug 05, 2012 Leslie rated it liked it

Shelves: short-stories, mysteries

3.5*
2020 reread was via audiobook narrated by Ian Carmichael. This collection of short stories contains:

Lord Peter Wimsey stories:
"The Image in the Mirror"
"The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey"
"The Queen's Square"
"The Necklace of Pearls"
Montague Egg stories:
"The Poisoned Dow '08"
"Sleuths on the Scent"
"Murder in the Morning"
"One Too Many"
"Murder at Pentecost"
"Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz"
Other stories:
"The Man Who Knew How"
"The Fountain Plays"

As much as I enjoyed the Lord Peter stories, in this ...more

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