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title: "The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries Book 4)"
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# The Late Scholar: Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mysteries Book 4)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Tone Deaf and Worse
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2019*

I, like the other one star reviewers, am absolutely stunned by all the five star reviews, not to mention Booklist’s and Publishers Weekly’s very generous comments.  This novel doesn’t seem like it was written by the same author, it is so weak compared to her previous efforts. Yes, I did notice diminishing quality in The Attenbury Emeralds, but nothing near as awful as the complete misunderstanding of the characters and how they talk, act and interact in The Late Scholar. There is occasionally a short passage or scene where the old Wimsey/Vane magic is glimpsed, slightly and briefly, but on the whole the dialogue grates from the opening line of the book.  It is ridiculous to think that because it is supposed to be 1952, these strong characters completely change. In fact, the opposite is true in life - we generally become ‘more so,’ as we age.  But Wimsey and Vane are almost unrecognizable.  The relationship with Bunter is cringe inducing, the language is leveled down to middle class patter, and all the old magic has disappeared.  Only the old dowager seems to retain her charm and her true voice.  Such a huge disappointment.  I cannot imagine buying another book in the series, if there is one.  In fact, pray the author never tries her hand at this kind of re-creation again - simply criminal result.  And one doesn’t have to be a detective to ferret that out!

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    Two stars
  

*by K***0 on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017*

This book was not quite terrible, but close. I can read and reread Sayers' writing for her wonderful characters, who are missing from this book. Each book in the series has weaker and weaker characters until they are missing in action in this one. And when they do appear, they do unbelievable things. No way would Lord Peter have forced Bunter to sit down and eat dinner with him and Harriet. I hope she doesn't write any more. It's like fan fiction by someone who isn't really a fan.

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    I expect to be disappointed by this book as in the last one Ms
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2015*

I am only in the first hundred pages of the book, which I admit I hesitated to buy given other reviews. Ms. Paton Walsh has shown that she doesn't truly understand the characters she has inherited in the previous books, particularly The Attenbury Emeralds, but the reader should expect if she is going to set a book in Oxford she could know just a little about how things work there. Reading Gaudy Night might have helped too. 1. no one wears academic gowns to high table; 2. an invitation to drinks and dessert after dinner means that this is a private social gathering and not one where you ask your companion "are you ready to leave" and just walk out, and 3. and most egregious of all so far Harriet earned an MA so the gown she would not have worn to dinner was indeed one she was entitled to wear. I expect to be disappointed by this book as in the last one Ms. Paton took two sentences to dismiss centuries of tenancy and the very clear character of Peter Wimsey as drawn by Dorothy Sayers. To suggest that Peter would just "sell the land" and turn out tenants who had lived on Denver land for centuries was just crazy. Her mistakes are some I would expect  a rather clueless young American writer to make. Or some driven by her obvious political feelings. a Duke in the 1950's telling his valet to call him "Peter" for example. Peter Wimsey is very clearly aware how much he both owes Bunter and how  fond he is of him. But he also respects the man's dignity --and he would never breach the social divide to embarrass Bunter in this way.I love these characters so I continue to put up with Paton. But PLEASE at least take the time and energy to try to understand the people you are writing about.

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