Word: pimpernellian
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...love story as on the unravelling of the mystery. Third, while putting its readers through all the paces of suspense it turns out to be not a murder story at all. Harriet Vane, heroine of a previous book (in which she was rescued from the gallows by the Pimpernellian sleuth, Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey), is a successful writer of detective stories. On account of the notoriety her trial has given her, she is a little too famed for comfort. But she wants to see her old college again, so accepts the invitation to attend the Shrewsbury gaudy. The week...
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