![]() I have read every book in the series to shreds, in some cases dozens of time each, and would probably have to call them my lifetime favorite books. ![]() The Lord Peter books were written by Dorothy Sayers, a Christian theologian, noted Dante translator and one of the first women to graduate from Oxford (before the university gave women degrees, actually, though they made an honest woman of her in 1915), from the 1920s through the end of the 1930s, and set in England in the period between the two world wars. No more perfect romance has been established in all of literature than the one between the effete, incunabula-collecting, quotation-spouting detective Lord Peter Wimsey and bluestocking detective-novelist Harriet Vane. There were crimson roses on the bench they looked like splashes of blood. ![]()
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