Sayers

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> - Joy - wrote:
> 
> > Which Peter Wimsey novel comes first?  I'm adding Sayers to my 
> (looong)
> > reading list, but I want to do it "right".  Thanks!
> 
> _Whose Body?_ is the first, though unfortunately not the best.  
Carry 
> on; if you aren't in love with Peter by the end of that one, the 
> second one, _Clouds of Witness_, will have you hooked or else you 
> should have someone check you for a pulse.  
> 
> You'll have to excuse me.  I've only ever had a serious crush on 
two 
> fictional characters, and Lord Peter was the first; finishing the 
> last of the stories at around 15 and knowing that that was the last 
> I'd ever read of him threw me into a mild depression.  I should 
add, 
> in case you do not succumb to the charms of the main character, 
that 
> Sayers is also a fantastic writer, which is supposed to be the 
point 
> of reading.  (I should also warn that she is very occasionally 
> anti-Semitic and, on one notable occasion, anti-gay.  I hate to say 
> it, and hate even more to read it, but it's true.)

About the anti-guy thing - do you mean in Unnatural Death? 

Naama