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3.25/5 for "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club"
An interesting mystery, ruined by by the fact that the entire story is built on and celebrates misogyny. When a character rants for several pages about women in a positively Neanderthal way and Wimsey then proceeds to defend him AND blame the woman, that's hard to take. When Wimsey later comes close to calling himself a misogynist and rather than apologising for it insists it is the right and proper way to be, that's nasty. And when the crux of the story is the exploitation of a woman whose crime is being deemed unattractive,that's appalling.
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