Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.
First edition
A modern view of Somerville College, Oxford, the inspiration for the fictional Shrewsbury College and Sayers' alma mater
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
St Mary's Church, Bluntisham, where Sayers's father was rector during her childhood
Somerville College
Sayers's second book of verse, 1918
Second of Sayers's two 1930 novels