Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
‘I was very annoyed not to be able to get a college Gaudy into because one of my first introductions to the bell jar atmosphere of Oxbridge life was via this clever whodunnit, centred around just such an event – Gaudy being the Oxford name for a college reunion. Harriet Vane takes centre stage here over her lover, Sayers’ longtime sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, when she returns, somewhat reluctantly, to
