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Karen Whitlaw teams up with New Orleans Police Detective Marc Chastain to track down her father's murderer.
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While most contemporary mysteries kick off with a dead body, and gallop along at a headlong pace, GAUDY NIGHT, first published in 1935, is a far more mannered work. Rather than focus on violence, this classic novel uses both the mystery and the personal lives of the characters to debate whether it`s possible for a woman to balance the demands of the intellectual life and of a successful marriage. The detective novelist Harriet Vane returns to Shrewsbury, her Oxford alma mater. The Dean has asked her to track down a
Poison Pen,
a perpetrator of a series of venomous notes and acts of petty vandalism. The
Poison Pen
seems to be trying to ruin the reputation of Shrewsbury, and, by extension, that of women`s education as a whole. The evidence suggests that the guilty party must be someone at the college: a maid, a student, or possibly even one of the professors. Harriet can`t identify the culprit and is obliged to summon Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur sleuth who, despite Harriet`s many rejections, still wants to marry her. The central issue of the book--the tension between a woman`s personal and professional life--remains relevant today.
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