Another brilliant Wimsey book, if you can call it that.

Pretty much Harriet all the way, except when Wimsey turns up and helps her out a bit.

The story is set in a time when society still frowned down upon women taking up anything other than the role of a good wife. When trouble brews at an all women's college at Oxford, Harriet is requested to help out. Things never turn truly gruesome, but even then, there's a lot that can be lost.

Using the plot, Sayers makes one ruminate about the importance of academic principles - and the great costs sometimes involved in upholding them.