skygiants

I think I was one of them. I tried The Nine Tailors when I was about 13 and scared myself to death by the time the body turned up - not helped by my mother's copy being the one with the severed hand in the bell rope on the cover. Then I tried Clouds of Witness in the school library when I was 17 and got scared by the floorplan of the house at the beginning (look I was spooked by weird things OK) and vowed never to read her again. Then my little sister got into the mini-series and came to visit me at university (we didn't have television at university in 1987) with our grandmother's copy of Gaudy Night and I got bored watching a cricket match and started reading it and pinched it off her and wouldn't let her take it home! I read Busman's Honeymoon out loud to her in the summer holidays because we were both fighting over it.

I liked Harriet and Peter annoyed me so for me it had to be that way round to get me into them at all. I read Busman's Honeymoon next, then Strong Poison, then Have his Carcase and after that went back to the beginning and read the rest because I could put up with early Peter if he knew he didn't stay that arrogant.