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36. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers ... copy of Elizabeth I Collected Works and vols.7 & 9 of novels and stories of Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison and Have His Carcase - first 2 of her 4 Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mysteries. These are published in GB - great editions, now if I can find Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeym ... ... Down
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
Your Momma Thinks Square Roots are Vegetables
The Dog is Not a Toy
Have His Carcase
Murder Must Advertise
I Capture the Castle
Atlas shrugged
The Players Come Again
Guards! Guards!
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
The Chic ... ... Body?, but what really matters is that you get the four at the end in the correct order: first Strong Poison, second Have His Carcase, third Gaudy Night, and fourth Busman's Honeymoon. There's a romance going on, you see. ...
Rocky Mountain Receipts Remedies by Jack and Sarah Benham nonfiction
bluenight by Cindy McCormick Martinusen mystery
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers mystery
From Dust and Ashes by Tricia Goyer fiction
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer sci-fi
Not on My Shift ... ... vermer
Delightful, just for the perfect voice of the letters: simultaneously squawking, self-absorbed, and sweet.
107. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
Harriet Vane, mystery author and general figure of notoriety, stumbles across a corpse on the seashore. Lord Peter Wimsey swoops ... ... library store earlier in the week:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
Have his Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
Nora, Nora by Anne Rivers Siddons
Midnight is a Lonely Place by Barbara Erskine Go katylit! I just finished The Five Red Herrings. Won't be starting Have His Carcase until Sept., so that gives me a chance to go after my TBR pile.
Am presently reading The Living Reed by Pearl S. Buck, Bob Hope's Confessions of a Hooker (I don't golf, I just love Bob Hope), and Ji ... ... out the heart of the book? I wish they could have done Busman's Honeymoon though!
That said, the televised version of Have His Carcase was brilliant, and did a wonderful job showing some of the strain in their relationship. Frankly, it probably helped that this one was longer. ... Saint Goes West. Was a bit down so got myself some feelgood stuff that didn't need a lot of attention. Now I'm reading Have his Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers and the first instalment of the Gap-series of which I can't remember the title at the moment.
Also I'm reading Viglius van Aytt ... ... in Britain, anyway.
I also recently listened to 2 (unfortunately, abridged) tapes of Dorothy Sayers' Strong Poison and Have His Carcase read by Edward Petherbridge, and they were excellent. Petherbridge is the actor who played Lord Peter in the most recent PBS productions - much better ... ... Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
The FIve Red Herrings
Murder must Advertise
The Nine Tailors
Strone Poison
Have His Carcase
Gaudy Night
Busman's Honeymoon
There is also an enjoyable collection of short stories, but I would read a few of the novels before starting those. I've listened to a few of the books on audio - Have His Carcase and a couple of others... Ian Carmichael is the reader and he is excellent. I tried to watch one of the films - can't remember now which one - but it did not keep my attention and I switched it off.
BBC Radio 7 has recently ... Not recent books, but, my goodness, Dorothy L. Sayers' Wimsey/Vane books, Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon (yes, reader, she married him), are full of "commitment phobia"! Getting Harriet to say "yes" took an amount of time and effort on Lord Pe ... ... at the Bellona Club 1928
The Documents in the Case 1930
Strong Poison 1930
Five Red Herrings 1931
Have His Carcase 1932
Hangman's Holiday 1933
(short stories)
Murder Must Advertise 1933
The Nine Tailors 1934
Gaudy Night 1935
Busman's Honeymo ... ... the Body (1928) SS
Strong Poison (1930)
The Five Red Herrings (1931)
APA: Suspicious Characters (1931)
Have His Carcase (1932)
Murder Must Advertise (1933)
The Nine Tailors (1934)
Gaudy Night (1935)
Busman’s Honeymoon (1937)
Thrones, Dominations - 1 ... >8 Who needs another site when you have us? ;-))
1. Strong Poison
2. Have His Carcase
3. Gaudy Night
4. Busman's Honeymoon (Note: the play came first, then the novel)
5. Talboys (this is a short story and can be found in pretty much any collection of Wimsey stories)
I am going to go out on a limb and say that Have his Carcase is my favorite Peter and Harriet book. Has anyone read the letters that Sayers published in The Times during WWII that were from/to/about various members of the Wimsey family? They are interesting, and Walsh uses them as material for Wim ...
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