Review: Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Gaby Meares
I found this very hard going and gave it up at page 160 of 347 pages. It rambles about, with too many characters pontificating and nothing particularly shocking ever happening. Wimsey hasn’t even appeared yet! My reading experience wasn’t enhanced by trying to read a 1955 edition with the tiniest print imaginable.
The experience of female intellectuals fighting for their right to study and immerse themselves in the word of academia is, of course, interesting. But the forensic detail applied by Sayers was too much for me.
I’ve read plenty of the Queens of Crime, including several other Sayers, but I’m afraid to say this one defeated me.