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Title: Wordy night
Review: Loaned to me by a friend, this book has given me a lot to chew on. Matters of principal, academic righteousness, gender essentialism, dominance, class relations, all are brought up in this novel, a very ambitious "whodunit." Some of these issues are tackled in a straightforward manner, and others only peripherally.Lord Peter and Harriet are presented as winning characters, and most of the secondary characters are fleshed out pretty nicely -- a difficult thing to do with a large cast. Still, it was too easy to get the different dons mixed up.Lastly, this is my first Sayers novel, and I don't think the reading experience was particularly marred by a lack of familiarity with the previous books. Rather, I felt disturbed by my inability to catch the literary references. Knowing your classics would serve you much better than knowing your other Sayers.
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