Busman's Honeymoon: Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans

Dorothy L Sayers

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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 Dorothy L. Sayers' last full-length detective novel. Variously described as a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions, it lives up to both descriptions with style.

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Praise for Busman's Honeymoon: Classic crime for Agatha Christie fans

  • I admire her novels . . . she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detailD. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers. - Daily TelegraphA truly great storyteller

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Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy L Sayers

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.

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