Busman's Honeymoon: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

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Harper Collins, Feb 24, 1995 - Fiction - 416 pages

Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman at its center and a dead man who's been discovered in a most intriguing condition: with not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a penny less than six hundred pounds in his pocket.

 

Contents

NewWedded Lord
30
Goosefeather Bed
46
Jordan River
58
Household Gods
67
Fury of Guns
84
Back to the Army Again
108
Lotos and Cactus
120
Ls dd
145
This Way and That Way
230
Crowners Quest
247
Sherryand Bitters
268
Crown Matrimonial
288
Crown Imperial
300
Straws in the Hair
310
Prickly Pear
326
When You Know How You Know Who
347

Times and Seasons
161
FourAle Bar
184
Policemans Lot
203
PotLuck
217
Amende Honorable
365
The Power and the Glory
374
Crown Celestial
390
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About the author (1995)

Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

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