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Based on the characters of Dorothy L. Sayers
Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate #4
Minotaur Books
July 2015
On Sale: July 14, 2015
Featuring: Lord Peter Whimsey; Harriet Vane
368 pages ISBN: 1250068339 EAN: 9781250068330 Kindle: B00H6EOJ1Y Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Mystery Historical
When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College,
Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey
discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the
Visitor"--charged with the task of resolving the issue. It
is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife,
Harriet, to revisit their beloved Oxford, where their long
and literate courtship finally culminated in their
engagement and marriage. At first, the dispute seems a
simple difference of opinion about a valuable manuscript
that some of the Fellows regard as nothing but an insurance
liability, which should be sold to finance a speculative
purchase of land. The voting is evenly balanced. The Warden
would normally cast the deciding vote, but he has
disappeared. And when several of the Fellows unexpectedly
die as well, Lord Peter and Harriet set off on an
investigation to uncover what is really going on at St.
Severin's. With this return in The Late Scholar
to the Oxford of Gaudy Night, which many readers
regard as their favorite of Sayers's original series, Jill
Paton Walsh at once revives the wit and brilliant plotting
of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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