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Busman's Honeymoon

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 13

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Busman's Honeymoon

By: Dorothy L Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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They plan to have a quiet country honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, Harriet Vane, find the previous owner's body in the cellar.

Set in a country village seething with secrets and snobbery, this is Dorothy L. Sayers' last full-length detective novel.

Variously described as a love story with detective interruptions and a detective story with romantic interruptions, it lives up to both descriptions with style.

©1937 The Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction
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Harriet and Peter are at last Married. Crime however follows them to their honeymoon. A motley cast of characters make for an enjoyable read.

an enjoyable follow up to the ongoing relationship between Harriet and Wimsey

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Enjoyable end Wimsey and Harriet's relationship. I enjoyed the narrator, despite the other negative comments. The stacatto delivery seemed to carry something of the diction of the era to me.

The end

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This love-story with detective interest is an old favourite.
Sadly, in my view, this most peculiar and inappropriate style of narration seriously detracts from the book. The narrator pauses wherever she feels like it, often after one of a series of adjectives for example, completely changing the sense of what is occurring, makes several mistakes which should certainly have been corrected, and generally ruins it. I found myself wondering for the next major irritation, rather than actually listening to the content. Anyone I believe would be distracted by the idea of sixteen men chained together, marching across a prickly dessert.....
A great pity. A proof-listener would be a good idea.

Classic wrecked by narration

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A marvellous book that I've read many times. Unfortunately it's spoilt by the monotonous narration

Great novel spoilrd

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This is classic Dorothy L Sayer's, but it is very sadly let down by the narrator. She mispronounces words and names, and puts a pause in the oddest places. I found her reading irritating, but I wonder if anyone had actually listened to her, before it was released. A few editing tips, and this could have been a lot better.
It feels like all of the possible sounds from this narrator were collected together and then threaded to make words and names, in this uneven reading. The result is strange and jarring, as some words and names are mispronounced.This odd phenomenon happened early on and put me off, and made me critical of her performance, including her choice of accents and voices. Such a shame.
I think that this is a failing of reading and editing.
The book is a delightful mix of love story and murder mystery, with the inclusion of period words that are startling to the point of offensive. Could such words be substituted, I think that they should. I think Dorothy wouldn't have minded.

Harriet and Peter start married life

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