Busman's Honeymoon (film) butler, Leslie Banks and Googie Withers". Busman's Honeymoon (film) Busman's Honeymoon is a 1940 British detective film directed by Arthur B. Woods. An adaptation of the Lord Peter Wimsey story "Busman's Honeymoon" by Dorothy L. Sayers, "Busman's Honeymoon" stars Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Googie Withers, Robert Newton and Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter. The plot revolves around newly married famous amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Montgomery) and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane (Cummings), who are looking forward to a quiet honeymoon at their new country cottage when they are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a local
Lord Peter Wimsey (1927), in which Miss Climpson assists Wimsey's investigation of the suspicious death of an elderly cancer patient. As recounted in the short story "The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba", in December 1927 Wimsey fakes his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang. Only Wimsey's mother and sister, the loyal Bunter and Inspector Parker know he is still alive. Emerging victorious after more than a year masquerading as "the disgruntled sacked servant Rogers", Wimsey remarks that "We shall have an awful time with the