Busman's Honeymoon - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane

Zusatztext "The Wimsey books are literate and delightful mysteries." Informationen zum Autor Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957. Klappentext Murder is hardly the best way for Lord Peter and his bride, the famous mystery writer Harriet Vane, to start their honeymoon. It all begins when the former owner of their newly acquired estate is found quite nastily dead in the cellar. All too quickly, what Lord Peter had hoped would be a very private and romantic stay in the country has turned into a most baffling case, with a misspelled "notise" to the milkman at its center and a dead man who's been discovered in a most intriguing condition: with not a spot of blood on his smashed skull and not a penny less than six hundred pounds in his pocket. Zusammenfassung “ Busman’s Honeymoon has everything—mystery! comedy! love! and drama—all served up in Dorothy Sayers’s best style.”  — New York Times The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age! and her dashing sleuth! Lord Peter Wimsey! one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists. Acclaimed author Ruth Rendell has expressed her admiration for Sayers’s work! praising her “great fertility of invention! ingenuity! and wonderful eye for detail.” The fourth Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane! Busman’s Honeymoon features an introduction by Elizabeth George! herself a crime fiction master. Harriet and her love! Lord Peter! have finally tied the knot but begin their married life together on an expectedly sour note when a body is discovered in the cellar of their romantic country estate. ...

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy L Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.10.2012
• EAN: 9780062196576
• ISBN: 978-0-06-219657-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION: Romance / New Adult