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...Lord Peter Wimsey. Balliol wafts along on a modest budget of $450,000, costs students about $1,260 a year, and is well laced with state scholarship boys. To spruce up the premises, it is launching a $2.8 million birthday fund drive, but bricks interest it less than brains. Only the brightest apply each year, and only about one out of six (including six or eight Americans) gets in. Hardly anyone drops...
Novelist Dorothy Leigh Sayers ("Lord Peter Wimsey") was even more vitriolic. "Suppose," said she, "that during the last century the churches had . . . denounced cheating with a quarter of the vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition...
...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-end reunion is pleasanter than...
...NINE TAILORS-Dorothy L. Sayers -Har court, Brace ($2). An emergency campanologist, and then most trusted detective, Lord Peter Wimsey assumes the protectorate of Fenchurch and its Rector. Against a background of bell-clanging is first the jewel robbery of 20 years ago; then a murdered man's body in a newly opened grave. Connecting the two, Wimsey solves the crime...
...emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge of conspiracy in murder to bring about a show-down in court. HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY-Dorothy L. Sayers-Harcourt, Brace ($2). A dozen stories, some about Lord Peter Wimsey; some about Montague Egg, traveling salesman full of apt saws; some about neither. THE DEAD PARROT-Michael Keyes- Crime Club ($2). BULL'S EYE - Milward Kennedy - Kinsey...