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Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Start date: September 1, 2016

Finish date: September 30, 2016

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Mar 14, 2017 Jan C rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rtd-2016-sayers-challenge, mystery, england, 2017

Always an enjoyable read. Love how he assumes an alias and goes undercover to work in an advertising agency (much as Sayers herself had worked in an ad agency). He is there to uncover the death of a Mr. Dean, who apparently fell down the stairs. Even here, he leads a double life by running around with a "bright young thing" as a harlequin with some rather athletic moves.

In addition, one of the entertaining portions to me is the cricket game with another firm. As an American, I have no knowledge ...more

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Dec 06, 2015 Teri-K rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, old-favorites, mystery-golden-age, zz-2023-bought, z-permanent-bookshelf, histfic-light

One of the interesting features of Sayer's writing is that each book isn't just like the others. Instead, while reading about Lord Peter, the reader might get a traditional mystery dependent on timetables and alibis, a story of class consciousness or a witty send-up of some feature of English life. The latter is what you'll find here.

Murder Must Advertise is a sharp look at the drive to create a need in the consumer's mind that only a particular product can fill. But it's also quite amusing and ...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Edith rated it it was amazing

Written in the 1930's, yet smacked of today's public relations competitive edginess. It dealt with the drug underworld like no other I've read from the same time period as well. Peter Wimsey was his ever charming self, and well-suited to the glib PR world. Well done! ...more

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