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
Lord Peter Views the Body Lord Peter Views the Body Lord Peter Views the Body, first published in 1928, was the first collection of short stories about Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L. Sayers. All of them were included in later complete collections, although some of these early works are generally considered to be below par. It is sometimes forgotten that the 'Golden Age' of book-length detective stories and thrillers between the Wars overlapped with and emerged from the previous era of the short magazine story, typified by Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories (the last collection of which was published in 1927, a year before