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Robotswithpersonality

Clouds of Witness | Dorothy L. Sayers

“facts...nasty, hard things, all knobs.“ ☺️

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Robotswithpersonality

Clouds of Witness | Dorothy L. Sayers

so-so

I do treasure a cheeky last line.
I'll admit to being a bit surprised that this one felt so much more like a court drama than a classic mystery, it was technically following the beats of looking for clues, discovering evidence, but Wimsey seems to play a smaller role in figuring things out, we get less fun or incisive character moments with him and Bunter, less cozy or outrageous about town moments, and there were large swathes 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? of news coverage and deposition.
Classism plays a major role, because I had no idea (and hope it's not still the practice) that peers of the realm were given an entirely different process within the justice system after initial charges are brought, and it's clear that the Lords and Duchesses are given every consideration during the investigation while the common folk and the less well off minglers in a certain echelon of society, 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? are often depicted with less intelligence, less manners, and more readily suspicious motives.
It doesn't appear that the central male characters of the story are treating the female characters with much more consideration than in the first novel of this series, but you do get a broader range and a clearer picture of what the womenfolk have in the way of restricted options in the time period of the novel. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? Mary Wimsey, who couldn't pursue her original love interest because the family wouldn't allow it and she had no funds without their approval, who could only reconsider once the man found a job that could also offer her a modest salary as a secretary alongside, who alternatively planned to marry a man who guaranteed her a certain level of indifferent independence and an approved match that would secure her inheritance; 3w

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? Mrs Grimethorpe, suffering an appalling amount of physical violence from her husband, which no one in her immediate circle has worked to put a stop to, who feared for her life if she tried to leave, attempting to find solace with another man who didn't bother to try to lift her out of her circumstances, as men of his station are so used to having a wife and entitled to whomever else as well; 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/? Simone Vonderaa, a mistress whom everyone understands has to look out for her own interests, going where the money is even if it devastates a former lover/supporter, because she needs a source of income that again, necessarily comes from a man. Pretty grim. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 As with many other series, I'll let the third book help me decide to continue or not based on whether it offers the same kind of promise as the first, or suggests it's not a series to wallow in if it drags about like certain portions of the second.
⚠️Domestic abuse, suicide 3w

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Robotswithpersonality

Clouds of Witness | Dorothy L. Sayers

The ultimate physical form of a detective? 🕵🏼‍♂️🤔

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kspenmoll

Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers

so-so

This dragged on for me. Too much talk: blah blah blah from Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet Vane, the voice of reason, sighted a dead body by the shore when she was picnicking. The plot that unfolds due to their investigation, although convoluted, did reach a resolution in the end. #readyourkindle

CBee

willaful I remember finding this one pretty dull. Gaudy Night is wonderful! 7mo

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kspenmoll

Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers

Top row: Just started Man in the Brown Suit today-thoroughly enjoying Anne Beddingfield as she creates her own adventures! A Summer of Hummingbirds, Have His Carcase #ChristieCapers #nonfiction #HarrietVane

Bottom row: took me most of the month to listen to The Queens of Crime, #audiobook #DCIBanks #poetry

Librarybelle

Librarybelle Yay!! 7mo

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kspenmoll

Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers

#bookreport
Top Row: #sundaybuddyread Trying to catch up this week; #Audiobook #QueensofCrime; #nonfiction #hummingbirds #readyourkindle #DorothySayers
Middle Row: #poetry
Bottom Row: finished books #memoir #DCIBanks #GideonOliver #forensicanthropology

wanderinglynn, TheBookHippie, CBee

wanderinglynn 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7mo

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kspenmoll

Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers

1) we filed in March & got both federal & state taxes back within a week.
2) Grit

TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 7mo

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Amie

Strong Poison | Dorothy L. Sayers

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Lord Peter Wimsey book 6. Very good! I think Miss Climpson and Miss Murcheson deserve the credit for solving this one - they did all the work! I wish Sayers had written a spinoff series about Miss Climpson and the “Cattery.“

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Texreader

Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers

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No murder but Lord Wimsey trusts his gut and investigates anyway. He finds motive and countless suspicious circumstances but no evidence of murder, until another person dies. And no evidence that it was murder. The hint of racism appears again and that turned me off quite a bit so that I won‘t continue the series. Saved, just barely, by some instances of lol humor and a nice analysis of how changes in laws create motives for murder. #authoramonth

Soubhiville

Texreader #letterU #litsyatoz 10mo

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Singout

Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery | Dorothy L Sayers

so-so

I‘ve barely heard of Dorothy Sayers, so I thought I‘d try out the #authoramonth challenge. What I thought would be a novelette turned out to be a BBC audio drama, which I think is good enough: the drama really brought the posh “cheerio/righty-ho/old boy” language to life. Murder isn‘t my favourite genre, and I found the plot hard to follow with so many characters, and couldn‘t honestly get engaged with many of them.

Soubhiville

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