Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers – a weighty novel that still thrills

This is a mystery that encompasses large questions of life and love but is also cracking detective story: a locked-room mystery in which the room is the fictional Oxford women’s college of Shrewsbury, the suspects the college’s staff and senior members, and the crime not a nice, neat murder, but a spiteful, sticky jumble of vicious pranks and poison pen letters. Recommended by Sarah Crown.
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