This week's book beat out six others for the top spot. Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey ferrets out the bad guys in Murder Must Advertise. I loved her depiction of early-twentieth-century advertising. At times the cynicism is brutal, but always with a dash of arrogant Lord Peter's wit. Lord Peter is one of those characters who is equally endearing and exasperating. I imagine, upon meeting him (if he were real), giving him a proper zinging set-down while simultaneously falling half in love.
I will admit to liking her The Nine Tailors better due to the greater depth of the characters and the twistier (is that a word?) plot, but Advertise does well to be relatively shallow since that is the snippet of the world it portrays. I've not read a Lord Peter Wimsey story that I have not liked, so this one was rather a shoe-in for the top spot.
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Ah! Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. It's been years since I read all of those books (and loved them). You might like the books of Elizabeth George about a much more modern lord Inspector Lynley, the early ones "Well Schooled in Murder" and "Payment in Blood" are more evocative of Sayers than later books but all are very good.
Elizabeth George is on my "get it" list for the library. I look forward to my first taste.
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