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 short of the boss's open office door ("Murder Must Advertise"). Among Lord Peter's hobbies, in addition to criminology, is collecting incunabula, books from the earliest days of printing. He is an expert on matters of food (especially wine), male fashion, and classical music. He excels at the piano, including Bach's works for keyboard instruments. One of Lord Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder ("double-six") 1927 Daimler four-seater, which (like all his cars) he calls "Mrs Merdle" after a character in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" who "hated fuss". Lord Peter Wimsey's (fictional) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who