false 116971 28 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. And what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country soon turns into a most baffling case, what with the misspelled "notise" to the milkman and the intriguing condition of the dead man -- not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a pence less than six hundred pounds in his pocket. 2721962 1943 Busman's Honeymoon total:1306|5:497|4:551|3:225|2:29|1:4| 1306 5426 1557 94 4 0 false true Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 21:36:42 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 22:00:53 -0700 2009
Harriet and Peter's beautiful, complex, deeply human relationship pretty much steals the show; rather than a happily-ever-after, th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 10:04:48 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 15:55:15 -0700 2009
I'm not just talking about handsome, brooding men with a secret past (although I'm not really into that, either. Except maybe the handsome part. Secret pasts and brooding, though: no, thank you). I'm talking about the literary genre.

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But I thought this one was splendid. There were a few sections in the middle that I could have done withou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 19:54:22 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 13:52:20 -0700 2008
In this story, Lord Peter and another character do a great d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 11:35:50 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 09:57:04 -0700 2008 excellent story; great comedy and continues development of the relationship between Lord Peter (LP) and Lady Harriet. Still have the short stories to read and the follow-on novels written by Jill Paton Walsh from t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 25 08:22:23 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 09:35:20 -0700 2008
Dorothy L. Sayers called Busman's Honeymoon a love story that ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Feb 22 08:02:03 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 08:02:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 08:55:10 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 14:34:55 -0800 2008
But a surprising central theme in this comedy/mystery is the tender and devoted relations...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jun 05 11:52:48 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 11:52:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 14:41:34 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 16:25:54 -0700 2008 Word of the day, I suppose. But said prothalamion is a series of letters between various people, and I love epistolary form. I think it stems from my early love of The Jolly Postman.

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The set up has Lord Peter Wimsey enjoying his honeymoon with Harriet Vane, but finding a body in their honeymoon home. The main problem is that is takes over a hundred pages of the book to find the body and before that is a kind of sub-Evelyn Waugh examination of upp...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Mar 13 13:08:12 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 13:10:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Feb 26 20:43:34 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 20:43:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:50:10 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 17:53:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 17:21:12 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:34:22 -0700 2009
Interestingly enough, although I call Honeymoon a Lord Peter novel, the book is almost completely from Harriet's POV. The omniscient narrator only reveals Harriet's though...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 13:50:45 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 20 05:40:07 -0700 2009 more...]]>