Busman's Honeymoon
Author(s): Dorothy L. Sayers
They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane find the previous owner's body in the cellar. Set in a country village seething with secrets and snobbery, this is a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions.
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'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit.' - P. D. James 'I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail.' - Ruth Rendell 'She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters
Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957.
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.214
- : 01 May 1974
- : 179mm X 111mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dorothy L. Sayers
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.91
- : 464