5/5 The ultimate Lord Peter...
  by K. Harding
Three wonderful DVDs bring Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane to life. Strong Poison and Have His Carcase are the best of the set; the script/editing in Gaudy Night make this one a little slow-paced and lacking in focus. The actors are perfectly cast, however; if only they had made Busman's Honeymoon, my joy would be complete!

5/5 Wondeful Vintage Crime
  by J. M. Fischer (Haberfield, NSW Australia)
This is real vintage English crime. A much gentler form of the genre than we see currently on television and movies. No blood and guts but much deduction. Anyone who enjoys the Dorothy Sayers books or indeed any of the English crime writers of the 1930's and 1940's will appreciate these stories. If you have a short attention span or require constant action these are not for you

3/5 Gaudy Night DVD
  by Ms.Mystery (Texas)
While many loyal PBS Mystery fans wait in desperation for quality interpretations of Christie, Sayers, etc., novels, if producers are going to film them, they should do justice to the books, and then when PBS sells the tapes/CD's, they should be the full-length version.
VERY DISAPPOINTING that a crucial scene, the purchase and ultimate destruction of a chess set, was omitted from the tape.
Thoses scenes are paramount catalysts in the relationship between Lord Peter and Harriet Vane. I could not believe that it was deleted!

Also, if "they" are going to produce the works of Agatha Christie, don't chop them up and squeeze them into a ridiculous ninety minutes.
Cat Among the Pigeons was one of my favorite Christie's, and the recent version was ridiculous. There was a much better version years ago and I cannot locate it.
I don't know why PBS cannot seem to realize that there is a vast audience for (Masterpiece) Mystery! Is there no real vision by the Powers That Be?
Better than nothing, but it's a mystery to me why we get shortcut versions. They need to be two hours in length in order to do justice to the great works. They will say, of course, money...but I think other genres are simply favored by the decision makers.


3/5 Do You love Harriet?
  by Judin Noora (finland)
The first two series/films are very good, but the most important one for Harriet and Peter, Gaudy Night is a disaster. Everything that was good in the book has been removed. And the woman playing Harriet has a way too high a voice!

5/5 A FINE ACHIEVEMENT WHICH STANDS ON ITS OWN FEET
  by drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
Yes, yet another review is to add to the glut in the market but I do exercise my right to cheer on the team that made this series. All three show the mark of a high degree of professionalism in television technique, all three are most enjoyable. To some degree, I found Gaudy Night special due to the characterization of the faculty and some of the students of an experiment in British elite education, an Oxford college for women staffed by faculty women. While there was no time allowed for elaborate characterizations, the script and the actresses made the most of the time they had to draw an interesting portrait.
Two more general comments: when one makes a film, TV play or stage production one is bound by the demands of these media and not of the book from which one may be drawing. Reading material and viewing material are vastly different in inherent qualities; to expect a television play to be true to a book is to set an unreal goal which should not be met. No better example can be offered than what Hitchcock did with John Buchan's classic adventure story, The 39 Steps. Make the comparison yourself. Both are still living documents. I feel the same with regard to different productions relating to the same characters. There is no way to try to make an Ian Carmichael production without Ian Carmichael. Happily, the two leads here were not asked to duplicate past performances of Lord Peter or Harriet Vane. (Among others were Haunted Honeymoon (U.S. title) with Robert Montgomery and Constance Cummings which I liked because Robert Montgomery could do no wrong in my book but, apparently, and with justice, Sayers could not stand.)
So, overall, I will cast my vote with those who found the series a first rate entertainment.