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Title: A good 138 page mystery in 500 pages.
Review: In this Novel Ms. Sayers seems to be going through some midlife crisis. She seems to want to show that she is more than just a mystery writer, and to do this she fills the pages with many obscure references to that show that she is a scholar. She also gives us travel log of Oxford in case anyone doubted that she attend a college there.The pages of the novel a strewn with banal dialog that does not seem to have any purpose other than to show that the author is familiar with the banter (or is it blather) that occurred in a womans college in the 1930's.In the other Wimsey ofter makes literary quotes, uses some Latin and French, but you normally don't have to translate it to decide what is happening in the novel.==Spoiler==Even in the last paragraph Ms. Sayers rather than having Harriet say a simple "I will" has her and Peter quoting from some 12th century play.If I had to describe this novel is a single word it would be: pretentious!
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