Busman's Honeymoon Busman's Honeymoon Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps
The Virgin in the Ice alongside Sherlock Holmes and Lord Peter Wimsey." She commended the author's deep knowledge of the area, where Ellis Peters lived when she wrote this novel, and of the times, saying "Her knowledge of the land and people and history permeates her work and gives her the incredible gift of transporting her reader into the past. You really do feel as though you are in that long-lost world lit only by fire, where it's quiet and green and life moves at a pace most people can be happy in." These two reviews accompany the "Second Cadfael Omnibus" (paperback 10 October 1991),