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#literature#booklr#hilarious#meme#dorothy l sayers#lord peter wimsey series#lord peter wimsey#Lord Peter#Lord Peter wimsey books#lpw#murder must advertise
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Murder Must Advertise + Coffee
#Murder Must Advertise#Lord Peter Wimsey#Dorothy Sayers#book#bookcover#booklr#book photography#black coffee#coffee#photography
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I'd say Lucy Boynton, but at this point my headcanon of her as Frankie Jones-née-Derwent is way too strong. Anya Taylor-Joy, Lord Peter Wimsey?
Oh, Lucy Boynton is great. I would watch an entire Tommy & Tuppence series with her and Will Poulter. If I were to cast her in Wimsey, it would be as Lady Mary.
Anya Taylor-Joy would be -- and now that I think of it, I'm quite taken with the idea -- Dian de Momerie. I think she could do really interesting things with the complexities and arc of the character.
#wimseyverse#detective drama casting hour#anya taylor joy#lucy boynton#murder must advertise#my detection obsession
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@idlesuperstar reminded me how much I love Murder Must Advertise, and also the wonderful and much missed AJ Hall's post about The Great Nutrax Row (The Mother of All Office Kerfuffles).
GNU legionseagle.
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every time i see those posts about the ubiquity of advertising i think of murder must advertise. dorothy l sayers if only you could see how it is now…
#especially the part about how rich people don’t notice ads bc they don’t *need* ads - they can get what they want when they want it#all while selling the fantasy that the working class can achieve their lifestyle by buying commercial goods#this is why DLS is so dear to my heart - do you see agatha christie having class consciousness?#(that was uncalled for)#dorothy l sayers#lord peter wimsey#murder must advertise
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On the subject of Lord Peter Wimsey screen adaptations: I just want more people to be aware of the fact that Shirley Cain, who played Miss Climpson in the 1987 Strong Poison miniseries, also played Miss Rossiter in the 1973 Murder Must Advertise, which I *think* makes her the only actor to appear with both Ian Carmichael and Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey.
#lord peter wimsey#lord peter#dorothy sayers#dorothy l. sayers#Edward Petherbridge#Shirley Cain#murder must advertise#strong poison
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The ending of Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
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He grinned with a wry mouth, and went out to keep his date with the one young woman who showed no signs of yielding to him, and what he said or did on that occasion is in no way related to this story.
Me the first time I read this: Huh, I wonder what the story is there.
Me now: HARRIET!!!!!! HELLO!!!!!!
#murder must advertise#lord peter wimsey#dorothy l sayers#favorite books#currently reading#harriet vane
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There is no argument for buying butter Kerrygold. It's natural human instinct.
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this time of year i can reread the nine tailors only if it's raining those are the rules
#(entirely arbitrary self-assigned rules)#(so glad it is raining here)#dorothy l. sayers#lord peter wimsey#the nine tailors#second favorite of the non-harriet books after murder must advertise#(yes yes i know harriet is mentioned unnamed in murder must advertise)#(but i'm not counting that)
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Sayers: here’s our new protagonist. we’re not going to mention his name. he is a totally unknown person whom we have never met before
me: it’s Wimsey isn’t it
Sayers: no, he has a beard. and his name is…uh…Death. yeah! Death Bredon.
me: you’re just listing Wimsey’s middle names
Sayers: I am not
me: tell me this: what does his nose look like
Sayers: ….I don’t think I shall
#I mean it’s enormously funny already when it happens in murder must advertise#but I’m reading the complete stories right now and the fact that it’s a pattern is so entertaining#Peter thinks giving his very strange middle name is a disguise#Sayers thinks we won’t immediately notice that her new protagonist is her old protagonist (again)#Cate reads
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Currently reading Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers
#Murder Must Advertise#Dorothy Sayers#Lord Peter Wimsey#read#reading#booklr#book#bookcover#book photography#photography#read in 2023
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thinking about the One Perfect Scene from have his carcase, and i need to ramble about it a little
in this scene harriet tells peter that he probably expects his chivalry to soften her, that all men do that and it's disgusting. which is a fair assumption to make, even though she clearly doesn't think peter's doing that and is just frustrated by the situation they're in. and then peter says this:
Why do you suppose I treat my own sincerest feelings like something out of a comic opera, if it isn’t to save myself the bitter humiliation of seeing you try not to be utterly nauseated by them? ouch. the reveal that peter's proposals, a fun little gag we've seen since strong poison, which seemed like just another part of peter's silliness, actually have so much weight and he feels this way about him... it's so good.
like to me any media that is episodic will end up suffering in terms of characterization. it feels inevitable. but sayers develops peter in such a fascinating way that i know he will keep surprising me until the very end of the series.
anyway, another thing i love about this scene is how much deeper the dynamic between peter and harriet feels when and after you read it. in this book they are so cute, so fun, i had no doubts they would be perfect together even though i wasn't sure how to feel about them in strong poison. but the emotions in this scene make so much sense for the time period they live in and for who they both are as people. it's just really good characterization, and very cleverly written.
later in this scene, due to dreariness and exhaustion, harriet starts to cry. and their little argument ends like this:
which again is so, so perfect. peter just talked about his frustrations regarding the comic opera he feels he needs to make of his proposals, but he immediately starts babbling and being silly to make harriet feel better.
in one single scene sayers shows us peter's true feelings, harriet's reasons for rejecting him, peter's very layered personality that is so easy to dismiss or forget about as you jump from witness to witness.
have his carcase is far from a perfect book. the mystery is too convoluted and it goes on for too long. but i'll keep thinking fondly of it for giving me so many wonderful peter/harriet moments, and this one scene that is one of my favourites i've read this year.
#lord peter wimsey#dorothy l. sayers#have his carcase#need to get to murder must advertise soon!!#this is exactly how i'm going to post about house of niccolò when i reread btw. this was practice
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honestly having a favorite peter wimsey book hasn't occurred to me before. i guess it's gaudy night because gaudy night is objectively the most genius literary work of them but beyond that i simply do not know
#i guess tossup btwn nine tailors and murder must advertise bc those have the premises that are most relevant to me personally#aka bell drama and working an office job
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Currently listening to the audiobook of “Murder Must Advertise” and I’m not very far in to it (so obviously don’t know how it will turn out) and even though it’s obviously part of the wider Peter Wimsey series, it has just struck me that a murder mystery but shot as a workplace mockumentary (like the Thick of It or the Office) would probably have gone down a storm in the noughties.
#Pam in Payroll stepping over the dead body without realising because she's too busy chatting about her weekend off with Sandra in HR#Coffee machine's broken because someone's wedged the murder weapon in it and this has caused Anthony the junior team leader to finally snap#Tom the intern unwittingly shredding evidence because why on earth would this fresh-faced new starter question his boss#Security think they're Big Cool Detectives just because a police officer said three things to them going around trying to interview people#Despite the fact that they have absolutely no authority and everybody (except Tom the Intern) knows this and ignores them#Turns out it wasn't even murder it was just that Site Maintenance were trying to do the work of ten people and left tools lying around#Or maybe someone was poisoned in the workplace canteen and Debbie the dinner lady is Offended that someone might spike her food#I'm not the biggest mockumentary fan myself- the Thick of It being the exception- but I do feel like that's almost#what Murder Must Advertise feels like if mockumentaries were all the rage in the 1930s rather than the early 21st century#reading log
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and when blue lock becomes a murder mystery then what
#SKSKSKSK I am sorry I will never not stop finding it hilarious when football players (affectionate) THREATEN constant murder and stabbing#like???? is that legal??? not very advertiser friendly I must note SKSKKS#Isagi is in his Run kinnie era damn someone hug him or smth and by somebody I mean Bachira maybe we should bring him back#blue lock#isagi#manga
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