num_pages: 501
description: The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford, have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. However, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti and wanton vandalism. Harriet asks her old friend Wimsey to investigate.
language: English
title: Gaudy Night
titlecomplete: Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
characters: Helen de Vine, Gerald "Saint-George" Wimsey, Letitia Martin, Mervyn Bunter, The Honorable Freddy Arbuthnot, Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Miss Burrows, Annie Wilson, Reggie Pomfret, Gerald, Duke of Denver, Miss Lydgate, Harriet Vane, Dr. Baring, Phoebe Tucker
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Historical Fiction, Historical, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Mystery, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 28906
places: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
series: Lord Peter Wimsey, Lord Peter Wimsey Chronological
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel of the Century
publisher: HarperTorch