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Title: Gaudy Night
Subtitle: Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 12
Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator: Jane McDowell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-15
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The twelfth book featuring Lord Peter (the third novel to feature Harriet Vane) is set in an Oxford women's college.
Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back....
At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters, and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the Gaudy celebrations.
But soon Harriet realises she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help.
Critic Reviews:
"I admire her novels...she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." (P. D. James)
Members Reviews:
Gaudy Night
I've adored this novel for 20 years. This reading of it made me dislike Harriet and Peter.
Run to the end of the story
jane Sayers reads too quickly which detracts readers attention. Story is weakened significantly as a result
a murder of a lovely book by narration
This is such a beautiful text, full of humor, intelligence, period details and the loveliness of Oxford. And it was brutally murdered by a shrill, humorless, staccato narration. Nothing in the world could make me dislike the heroes and the book itself, but I have to say money was wasted on this production.
Jane McDowell did a very unpleasant narration: humorless, tactless and slap-dash.
As she already did all of the books, there is obviously no chance of another try in the nearest future with a different narrator. Such a pity.
Miss Sayers at her best - shame the narration wasn't that great
I have waited a long time for this book to be released I audio for at. In my humble opinion this is Miss Sayers at her very best. By why oh why didn't the get Edward Petherbridge for the narration. This is why I have marked down the performance.
A lamentable narrator and badly produced
Stilted! She stops halfway through speeches to take a breath where nobody would. Reads like an amateur. However, I did feel that some editing, or production, might have spared us the howlers and mispronunciations. Plus not knowing how Oxford names should be spoken. 'Saint Aldgates' indeed. And 'Dives' pronounced like seedy nightspots. it should be 'DivES, with the E pronounced. I stuck with it, because I like the story, but this is the second of the new series of Lord Peter books I have been disappointed by and I shan't get any more. I and Ms Sayers deserve better than this. Thank heavens I have all the Ian Carmichael recordings.
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Title: Gaudy Night
Subtitle: Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 12
Author: Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator: Jane McDowell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-24-15
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey. The twelfth book featuring Lord Peter (the third novel to feature Harriet Vane) is set in an Oxford women's college.
Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back....
At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters, and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the Gaudy celebrations.
But soon Harriet realises she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help.
Critic Reviews:
"I admire her novels...she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." (P. D. James)
Members Reviews:
Gaudy Night
I've adored this novel for 20 years. This reading of it made me dislike Harriet and Peter.
Run to the end of the story
jane Sayers reads too quickly which detracts readers attention. Story is weakened significantly as a result
a murder of a lovely book by narration
This is such a beautiful text, full of humor, intelligence, period details and the loveliness of Oxford. And it was brutally murdered by a shrill, humorless, staccato narration. Nothing in the world could make me dislike the heroes and the book itself, but I have to say money was wasted on this production.
Jane McDowell did a very unpleasant narration: humorless, tactless and slap-dash.
As she already did all of the books, there is obviously no chance of another try in the nearest future with a different narrator. Such a pity.
Miss Sayers at her best - shame the narration wasn't that great
I have waited a long time for this book to be released I audio for at. In my humble opinion this is Miss Sayers at her very best. By why oh why didn't the get Edward Petherbridge for the narration. This is why I have marked down the performance.
A lamentable narrator and badly produced
Stilted! She stops halfway through speeches to take a breath where nobody would. Reads like an amateur. However, I did feel that some editing, or production, might have spared us the howlers and mispronunciations. Plus not knowing how Oxford names should be spoken. 'Saint Aldgates' indeed. And 'Dives' pronounced like seedy nightspots. it should be 'DivES, with the E pronounced. I stuck with it, because I like the story, but this is the second of the new series of Lord Peter books I have been disappointed by and I shan't get any more. I and Ms Sayers deserve better than this. Thank heavens I have all the Ian Carmichael recordings.