Gaudy Night Audiobook (Free)

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the ‘Gaudy’, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies and poison-pen characters – including one which says, ‘Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup.’ Some of the records threaten murder and one of them involves an extended Latin quotation, which makes Harriet think that the perpetrator is probably a member of the Senior Common Room. But which from the evidently rational, respectable dons could possibly be committing such crazed works? When a desperate undergraduate, at her wits’ end after receiving a series of especially savage letters, attempts to drown herself, Harriet decides that it’s time to question Lord Peter Wimsey for help. So when the secret is finally resolved, she is faced with an agonising decision: should she, after five many years of rejecting his proposals, finally consent to marry Lord Peter?