Tag: Lord Peter Wimsey

• Machines and Murder Mysteries

  Another trip to Paris in the company of Chief Superintendent Maigret and an English honeymoon with Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane offered unexpected reading joys when I popped into the library to take some books back. Having tried (and failed) to find anything by Georges Simenon (with the exception of The Hotel Majestic, reviewed…

  chrisharding53

  April 17, 2012

  Crime novels, Dorothy L Sayers, Georges Simenon, Harriet Vane, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lord Peter Wimsey, Maigret

• The Nine Tailors

  The opening of The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L Sayers, has to be one of the most atmospheric of any novel. Here we are in the wintry, bleak, isolated East Anglian fens with Lord Peter Wimsey: Coming a trifle too fast across the bridge, blinded by the bitter easterly snowstorm, he had overshot the road…

  chrisharding53

  March 24, 2012

  bell ringing, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lord Peter Wimsey, The Nine Tailors