Summary: Picking up after the honeymoon, Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane learn to live together as a married couple while solving a mystery. Dorothy Sayers published the last full novel of her Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series in 1937, Busman’s Holiday. Roughly 60 years later, an early draft of this novel was found in a … Read more
Summary: A series of twelve radio plays that ran on BBC radio from Dec 1941 until Oct 1942. Any attempt to portray Jesus artistically has to make artistic and theological choices. Those choices will be debated, but at the same time, if the story of Jesus cannot be shared, then people cannot hear. On the … Read more
Summary: Harriet reluctantly returns to Oxford after her murder trial and encounters a mystery that might end up as a murder. I have been slowly working through the Peter Wimsey mystery series over the past several years. When I have seen people talk about the series, they generally say that either Strong Poison or Gaudy … Read more
Summary: Harriet Vane is introduced to the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series. I read the final book of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series last week, and that inspired me to go back and listen to the audiobook of Strong Poison, the book where Harriet Vane was introduced. Unfortunately, I continue to not really be … Read more
Summary: Lord Peter and Harriet finally get married and go on their honeymoon, only to have it be a ‘working vacation’ as they solve a murder. I have very slowly been working through the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series. I noticed when looking for something else that Audible had a copy of the old Ian … Read more
Summary: Harriet Vane and Peter Wimsey back together again. I have been slowly working my way through the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy Sayers. Sayers is known both for her detective novels and her non-fiction works on faith and education, and her translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia. She was active writer from the 1920s … Read more
Summary: A female crime novelist is accused of poisoning a former lover, and Lord Peter falls for her, but he has to prove she is innocent first. After reading the first two books of the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series and enjoying them, but being a bit disappointed by a collection of short stories that came next, … Read more
Summary: Lord Wimsey is vacationing in an artist’s community when one of the artists, someone no one likes, is found dead. Five artists have motive and weak alibis. I like reading book in a series in order, even if the order really does not matter particularly to the series. The Five Red Herrings is one of those … Read more
Reposting my 2013 review because the Kindle Edition is free today only. The audiobook is $2.99 with the purchase of the free kindle book. Summary: An amateur detective (and younger brother to a Duke) helps a Scotland Yard officer solve a murder. In my ongoing quest to read more old literature, I picked up the first book … Read more
Summary: Lord Peter Wimsey overhears a doctor talking about a case and is convinced it is the perfect crime. When I think of Lord Peter Wimsey, I most often think of the modern TV show Castle. I am a big fan of Castle. And there are many similarities. Lord Peter Wimsey is rich, interested in … Read more