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annathepiperAnd for a hard change of pace from the previous book, I jumped over to Dorothy L. Sayers' Hangman's Holiday, an old short story collection featuring several shorter pieces about the redoubtable Lord Peter Wimsey as well as her lesser-known amateur sleuth, Montague Egg.
I continue to like Sayers' novels better than her short pieces, and I definitely prefer novels when it comes to mysteries in general; with short pieces it often seems like you have only enough time for the crime and then the immediate solution. Sayers definitely gets around that in several of the pieces in this collection, though. I particularly liked "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", in which the victim of the crime underwent a plight to which I was particularly sympathetic, and the last two standalone pieces, "The Man Who Knew How" and "The Fountain Plays", both of which had clever twist endings.
This is a bit of a hard to find book--I only scarfed it because someone had sold a used copy to the University Bookstore. Sayers' novels are way easier to find. But give this a read if you can find it. Three stars.
I continue to like Sayers' novels better than her short pieces, and I definitely prefer novels when it comes to mysteries in general; with short pieces it often seems like you have only enough time for the crime and then the immediate solution. Sayers definitely gets around that in several of the pieces in this collection, though. I particularly liked "The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey", in which the victim of the crime underwent a plight to which I was particularly sympathetic, and the last two standalone pieces, "The Man Who Knew How" and "The Fountain Plays", both of which had clever twist endings.
This is a bit of a hard to find book--I only scarfed it because someone had sold a used copy to the University Bookstore. Sayers' novels are way easier to find. But give this a read if you can find it. Three stars.
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Date: 2007-05-11 08:25 pm (UTC)And yay, sold! Hope you'll enjoy the books. I'm almost tempted to re-buy the first five since they're releasing them with shiny new covers to match the style of the later ones. ;) I'm rather more tempted to go buy White Night as well, the latest--Jim is one of the few authors that's edged onto my list of authors I'd actually consider buying in hardcover.