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Something went wrong. I do admit so far I have definitely given more attention to the romance side of the novel, but fear not dear readers, (who are probably wondering whether this is still a mystery fiction blog), I am now going to talk about the detective work. So two fine detectives ignore a strange situation, and then find a body days later. An excellent recording & consistent performance by Ian Carmichael as Lord ... Avaliado no Reino Unido em 6 de dezembro de 2014. In London, anybody, at any moment, might do or become anything. He turned the handle. Looking at my good reads ratings I rated Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Unnatural Death and Strong Poison most highly. Busman's Honeymoon / Dorothy L. Sayers New English Library, 2003, c1937. I usually only write positive reviews, unless the product is faulty, but I feel compelled to write one for this book. Though it was also funny seeing Bunter lose his rag for the first time, over Mrs Ruddle upsetting the port. It still is quite funny though when the Wimseys think they have a moment to themselves when all the time Miss T is awkwardly hiding behind the door. Never again. Due to my very vague memories I did begin to wonder whether I was remembering it through rose tinted spectacles, as at the time I originally read it I hadn’t read many other golden age detective fiction writers. See also: Check out Les Blatt’s thoughts on this novel at Classic Mysteries. “Addison left that for us,” Suzanne said. Portions of the dialogue are in French and Latin, all without translation. I think my constitution is the better of the two. Thanks for stopping by ~ I always enjoy hearing your comments so please feel free to leave some! Para calcular a classificação geral de estrelas e a análise percentual por estrela, não usamos uma média simples. He picked up the champagne bottle and opened it, which at least gave him something to do with his hands. ( Log Out /  Learn more about the program. Please try again. HarperCollins was founded by brothers James and John Harper in New York City in 1817 as J. and J. Harper, later Harper & Brothers. The thirteenth book in the classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, with a new introduction by crime writer Natasha Cooper. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 1-Click ordering is not available for this item. She smiled and took a sip of champagne. I know Sayers would do some short stories later featuring them again and their children and of course there are the Jill Paton Walsh books (which I did enjoy on the whole when I originally read them), but it’s just not the same is it. Busman’s Honeymoon (1937), whilst technically post-marriage, didn’t feel like it properly […]. There are some comic moments where Harriet and Peter play around with motives and there is nice parodying of Holmes deductions, but on the whole both these characters realise the gravity of the situation. Never again. Watching it I thought about other memorable wedding night scenes. Though I’m afraid I’ve quite taken over your dressing table.” Thanks for the recommendation – which of her earlier and (ahem) shorter works would you suggest to me? “We needn’t— There needn’t be anything between us until after the baby’s born. Itens que você visualizou recentemente e recomendações baseadas em seu histórico: Selecione o departamento que deseja pesquisar no. Harriet ceases to be the curmudgeon of her other appearances while Peter is less the cardboard cutout and a more rounded individual and even Bunter gets fleshed out a little in the course of his travails. The strength of her writing style also comes across in the strong opening of Busman’s Honeymoon, as the first 30 or so pages are in an epistolary or diary format. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________, Malcolm drew a breath and rapped at the bedchamber door. I’m starting to relax into the holiday season despite the seemingly ever-increasing To Do list – this year complicated by a certain one-year-old birthday party and having a new release out. Download one of the Free Kindle apps to start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, and computer. Out of those four my dim memories suggest that the 2nd and 4th of these had the better puzzle/ definitive clues to follow up after. Although I love some of Dorothy Sayers' books, this one is incredibly boring. For those who have equally hazy memories like mine the book begins with Harriet and Peter’s wedding and they plan to have their honeymoon at a house called Talboys, which is situated near to where Harriet lived when she was a girl. Variously described as a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions, it lives up to both descriptions with style. “What I’m trying to say is you can define how we mean to go on.” His death unsurprisingly is murder. Her way of reframing the focus of the novel, having the detective element as the intrusion, shows the journey her mystery writing had taken her on, as a decade earlier her views were decidedly different. One that immediately came to mind is Nicholas and Gelis’s wedding night in Scales of Gold in Dorothy Dunnett’s House of Niccolo series. P. D. James. They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. I also got put off by some negative reviews for it, so it is interesting to see a more positive view on it. There's little plot, not much happens, mostly it's people holding conversations in which they analyse their feelings or the reasons why someone can't have committed the crime. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. My memories of this book were hazy and I was keen to see if I still loved the book as much […], […] Kate at crossexaminingcrime read us Dorothy L. Sayers’ Busman’s Honeymoon: […], […] to pick for Sayers. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2019. I've read some of the other reviews and it is absolutely true, one person's meat is another person's poison. (As a side note, Saturday was Dorothy Dunnett Day, and I spent it at lunch with some wonderful Dunnett readers). Try again. This is a great overview of the book, Kate, I really enjoyed your thoughts. Nothing else matters a damn,’ but nonetheless the destruction his actions cause take their toll on him. It really interests me that Sayers does not end at the conventional moment of triumph, but instead shows this case to be a hard won victory and a victory which, albeit temporarily, breaks Peter. I found it tedious, in the extreme. ‘It looks rather unwell already, Harriet. An excellent recording & consistent performance by Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter reprising his role in the equally well-dramatized 1970's TV adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers stories.

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