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Actually, yes. And to save you having to look it up, I'll tell you that it's Strong Poison.

I agree that Whose Body isn't the best, although I still like it; but don't skip over all the middle ones. The Nine Tailors, Clouds of Witness and Unnatural Death are all brilliant, although Gaudy Night is arguably the most brilliant of the Peter Wimsey mysteries.

Yes, I've read them all, several times. Dorothy Sayers sits at the top of my list of favorite detective story writers.

Anyway, yeah, really liking the books with Harriet Vane in them is pretty much normal. Harriet is on my short list of fictional characters I want to marry. She first shows up in Strong Poison, which is very good.

I reread Whose Body not long ago, and yeah, it's not as good as the later books. So often in the early books he goes from being Bertie Wooster to Sherlock Holmes's way smarter and more athletic cousin at the drop of a hat. Some of the early Wimsey short stories are just too incredible to be believed. He's the Babe Ruth of cricket, not to mention a gymnast, can spend two years of his life pretending to be dead so as to infiltrate a burglary ring, and can tell you the vintage and vineyard of any bottle of wine by taste. Once Harriet shows up, his character becomes less of a caricature.

"Murder Must Advertise" was my favorite Wimsey novel, fwiw. Wimsey goes undercover as a working stiff ad an advertising firm. Funny stuff, good plot, nice resolution. Give it a try.