Although no murder occurs in Gaudy Night, it is not without a great deal of suspense and psychological thrills.

" Gaudy Night is a remarkable achievement.

Gaudy Night deals with a number of philosophical themes, such as the right relation between love and independence or between principles and personal loyalties.

Susan Haack has an essay on Gaudy Night as a philosophical novel.

The plot of Gaudy Night was adapted to become the two-part Out of the Past episode (# 155 & # 156 ) of the American television mystery series Diagnosis: Murder starring Dick van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan.

* Review of Gaudy Night by Jo Walton

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He was a conscientious and effective commanding officer, popular with the men under his command — an affection still retained by Wimsey's former soldiers many years after the war, as is evident from a short passage in " Clouds of Witness " and an extensive reminiscence in " Gaudy Night ".

Harriet Vane contacts him about a problem she has been asked to investigate in her college at Oxford ( Gaudy Night ).

The cover of Gaudy Night, from the BBC series.

Lord Peter Wimsey was played by Ian Carmichael in a series of independent serials that ran from 1972 to 1975 and adapted five novels ( Clouds of Witness, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise and The Nine Tailors ) and by Edward Petherbridge in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey / Vane novels ( Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night ) were dramatised.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

Gaudy Night was released as an unabridged audio book read by Ian Carmichael in 1993.

* Gaudy Night ( 1935 )

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

* Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

Chapter XXIII, Gaudy Night.

The Bodleian is used as background scenery in Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night, features in Michael White's Equinox, and is one of the libraries consulted by Christine Greenaway ( one of Bodley's librarians ) in Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novel The Wench is Dead.

The storyline of his novel, The Search, is referenced in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night, and is used to help elicit the criminal's motive.

Gaudy Night book cover.

After an engagement of some months following the events at the end of Gaudy Night, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry.

Busman's Honeymoon was preceded by adaptations of Whose Body ?, Strong Poison, and Gaudy Night ( all adapted by Frances Limoncelli and produced at Lifeline Theatre ).

She eventually returns his love ( Gaudy Night ) and marries him ( Busman's Honeymoon ).

A few years later, in 1935, Harriet returns to Oxford for a reunion ( or Gaudy ) and is asked to investigate some strange occurrences at her old college.

1934-1935 Gaudy Night ( published 1935 ).

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy, published in 1952, is often quoted as the earliest example, although in Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, Elaine Showalter discusses C. P. Snow's The Masters, of the previous year, and several earlier novels have an academic setting and the same characteristics, such as Willa Cather's The Professor's House of 1925, Régis Messac's Smith Conundrum first published between 1928 and 1931 and Dorothy L. Sayers ' Gaudy Night of 1935 ( see below ).

Choral Evensong ( or, on red-letter days, Holy Mass ) is currently sung on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays during full term, in addition to which the Choir sings for Gaudy Evensongs, for Special Feasts and Ceremonies ( including the All Souls Requiem, Remembrance, the Advent and Christmas Carol Services, Ash Wednesday, and the Passiontide service ) and for frequent concerts, commercial events, foreign tours, CD recordings and broadcasts.

One of the most famous feasts of the College is the Boar's Head Gaudy, which originally was the Christmas Dinner for members of the College who were unable to return home to the north of England over the Christmas break between terms, but is now a feast for old members of the College on the Saturday before Christmas.

Modeled after the Boar's Head Gaudy of Queen's College, Oxford, Boar's Head is the traditional start to the Christmas season at Oglethorpe.

Gaudy or gaudie ( from the Latin, " gaudium ", meaning " enjoyment " or " merry-making ") is a term used to reflect student life in a number of the ancient universities in the United Kingdom as well as red brick institutions such as Durham University.

The Lord Peter Wimsey mystery Gaudy Night, by Dorothy Sayers, is set at such a reunion at a fictional women's college at Oxford.

Gerald, Lord Peter's favourite nephew, who was first seen a decade earlier as a precocious boy playing a major role in solving " The Learned Adventure of the Dragon's Head " and appeared as an Oxford undergraduate in Gaudy Night ; is now an RAF combat pilot.

This ties in with references in Gaudy Night, when Wimsey is mentioned as undertaking an investigation in an advertisement agency while Harriet Vane goes about her normal life.

A subgenre is the campus murder mystery, where the closed university setting substitutes for the country house of Golden Age detective novels ; examples include Dorothy L. Sayers ' Gaudy Night, Carolyn Gold Heilbrun's Kate Fansler mysteries and Colin Dexter's The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.

Harriet Vane was portrayed by Harriet Walter in the 1987 BBC television adaptations of Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night.

* Dorothy L. Sayers – Gaudy Night

He played Robespierre in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1982 ), and he later played Bunter, the valet of Lord Peter Wimsey, in the BBC's productions of Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night ( all based on Dorothy Sayers's original novels ).

The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College ( a thinly veiled take on Sayers ' own Somerville College ), have invited her back to attend the much anticipated annual ' Gaudy ' celebrations.

Harriet Vane returns reluctantly to Oxford to attend the Gaudy dinner.

The only remaining gaudy had been Candlemas, the new annual dinner will be known as the St. George's Day Gaudy.