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Mystery.
Society's eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in a shambles by the previous owner. His sudden appearance, dead from a broken skull in the cellar, only prompts more questions. Why would anyone have wanted to kill old Mr Noakes? What dark secrets had he to hide? The honeymoon is over, as Lord Peter and Harriet Vane start their investigations. Suspicion is rife and everyone seems to have something to hide, from the local constable to the housekeeper. Wimsey and his wife can think of plenty of theories, but it's not until they discover a vital fact that the identity of the murderer becomes clear.… (más)
Muchas veces se ha descrito esta obra como una novela romántica con incursiones policíacas o como una novela policíaca con aspectos románticos. Sea como fuere, lo cierto es que se trata de una de las piezas más logradas de Dorothy L. Sayers.En esta ocasión, lord Peter Wimsey y Harriet Vane, recién casados, se disponen a pasar una idílica luna de miel en una mansión de la campiña. Todo parece anunciar unos días de paz y descanso hasta que Butler, el mayordomo, encuentra el cadáver del propietario de la casa en la bodega. Se presenta así el primer caso de asesinato para el recién consagrado matrimonio. El ingenio y la sagacidad de lord Peter, el detective más elegante de Inglaterra, y la astucia y la imaginación de Harriet se aúnan en esta obra, una bella celebración del amor y la inteligencia.
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That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure. . . . I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split . . . a lover is more condoling. Shakespeare: A Midsummer-Night's Dream.
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TO MURIEL ST. CLARE BYRNE, HELEN SIMPSON AND MARJORIE BARBER
Dear Muriel, Helen, and Bar, With what extreme of womanly patience you listened to the tale of Busman's Honeymoon while it was being written, the Lord He knoweth. I do not like to think how many times I tired the sun with talking--and if at any time they had told me you were dead, I should easily have believed that I had talked you into your graves. But you have strangely survived to receive these thanks. You, Muriel, were in some sort a predestined victim, since you wrote with me the play to which this novel is but the limbs and outward flourishes; my debt and your long-suffering are all the greater. You, Helen and Bar, were wantonly sacrificed on the altar of that friendship of which the female sex is said to be incapable; let the lie stick i' the wall! To all three I humbly bring, I dedicate with tears, this sentimental comedy. It has been said, by myself and others, that a love-interest is only an intrusion upon a detective story. But to the characters involved, the detective-interest might well seem an irritating intrusion upon their love-story. This book deals with such a situation. It also provides some sort of answer to many kindly inquiries as to how Lord Peter and his Harriet solved their matrimonial problem. If there is but a ha'porth of detection to an intolerable deal of saccharine, let the occasion be the excuse. Yours in all gratitute, Dorothy L. Sayers
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Prothalamion: MARRIAGES WIMSEY-VANE.
Chapter I: Mr. Mervyn Bunter, patiently seated in the Daimler on the far side of Regent's Park, reflected that time was getting on.
Citas
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... May I express the hope that the present union may happily exemplify that which we find in a first-class port---strength of body fortified by a first-class spirit and mellowing through many years to a noble maturity. [Bunter's wedding toast]
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So she held him, crouched at her knees, against her breast, huddling his head in her arms that he might not hear eight o'clock strike.
Last sentence of poem at end: This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.
John Donne: Eclogue for the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset
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Note: Busman's Honeymoon subtitled A Love Story with Detective Interruptions is a novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. It should not be confused with Busman's Honeymoon subtitled A Detective Comedy in Three Acts, a play, which was penned by Dorothy L. Sayers and M[uriel] St. Clare Byrne.
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Fiction.
Mystery.
Society's eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in a shambles by the previous owner. His sudden appearance, dead from a broken skull in the cellar, only prompts more questions. Why would anyone have wanted to kill old Mr Noakes? What dark secrets had he to hide? The honeymoon is over, as Lord Peter and Harriet Vane start their investigations. Suspicion is rife and everyone seems to have something to hide, from the local constable to the housekeeper. Wimsey and his wife can think of plenty of theories, but it's not until they discover a vital fact that the identity of the murderer becomes clear.
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