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Gaudy Night
Classic mystery
Gaudy Night
Book 10 of the Lord Peter Wimsey series
Harriet Vane returns to her former Oxford women's college for a reunion and is drawn into a campaign of anonymous letters, vandalism, and escalating threats. The dons ask her to investigate discreetly because publicity could damage both the college and the still-contested place of women in academic life. When the case exceeds Harriet's reach, Lord Peter Wimsey joins her without taking the problem—or her independence—out of her hands. Thoughtful and richly layered, this mystery suits readers who enjoy Oxford atmosphere, intellectual questions, psychological detection, and a slow romance built on the difficult work of equality.
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