I enjoyed the TV series when I had it out from the library a few years ago, and I remember wishing they’d put it out on DVD. If only they knew how happy it would make us! But enjoy your reread of Gaudy Night – it gets better every time I read it. 🙂

Agatha Christie is fantastic. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a better mystery writer than she is, but of course I’m not that widely read as far as mysteries go.

Agatha Christie is a lifelong favourite of mine. I know the identity of every murderer in every book she wrote. It is one of those useless pieces of knowledge and has not exactly helped me in my pather through life, but has come in handy at pub quizzes. She is scrupulous at setting out clues for the reader and if we miss them, well, hey it is not her fault. I like to re-read Christie knowing exactly where the clues are and now thinking O gosh why didn’t I see that? but have to say that even now, I miss them.

Right off to get Gaudy Night off the shelf….

You must read them. I think it’s neat that each of the books is a slightly different type of mystery. She says in her letters that she tries to write her mysteries with a different idea behind them each time, and that’s definitely the case with the Harriet Vane series.

I love Have His Carcase. I’ve liked the Harriet Vane mysteries much better than Sayers’s other books, but I can never decide definitely which of the three is my favorite.

I love cilantro. I feel so sorry for people who didn’t get the gene. Every time I get a bite of food with cilantro in, I love it all over again. Gorgeous.

I really have to give Sherlock Holmes another chance. I wrote him off forever in ninth grade after reading The Hound of the Baskervilles in English class, but that may not have been fair. 😛

Apparently Tolkien liked Sayers’ early mysteries but hated Gaudy Night. Silly Tolkien got it absolutely backwards. I think Gaudy Night is way the best of Sayers’ mysteries that I’ve read so far.