num_pages: 383
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, #12)
characters: Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Letitia Martin, Miss Burrows, Phoebe Tucker, Mervyn Bunter, Gerald, Duke of Denver, Gerald "Saint-George" Wimsey, Dr. Baring, Helen de Vine, The Honorable Freddy Arbuthnot, Annie Wilson, Miss Lydgate, Reggie Pomfret
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 28912
places: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
series: Lord Peter Wimsey Chronological, Lord Peter Wimsey
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel of the Century
publisher: Avon Books