Busman's Honeymoon preceded by adaptations of "Whose Body?", "Strong Poison", and "Gaudy Night" (all adapted by Frances Limoncelli and produced at Lifeline Theatre). 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
The Wimsey Papers The Wimsey Papers The Wimsey Papers are a series of articles by Dorothy L. Sayers published between November 1939 and January 1940 in "The Spectator". They had the form of letters exchanged by members of the Wimsey family and other characters familiar to readers of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels; but the articles were intended to convey Sayers's opinions and commentaries on various aspects of public life in the early months of the Second World War, such as blackout, evacuation, rationing and the need for the public to take personal responsibility rather than wait for the government to guide