Busman's Honeymoon
Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 13
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Jane McDowell
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Dorothy L Sayers
About this listen
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 & StoughtonListeners also enjoyed...
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- Mrs. C. Hunt
- 09-01-19
Bauman 's Honeymoon
This is another superb story with fun, and murder along with new wedded bliss.Loads of fun.
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- Nicola pitter
- 14-03-23
D.L.S books are very enjoyable
I do think the narrator was the wrong choice.Jill Paton Walsh had Edward Petherbridge read her Peter Wimsey book and he was excellent as an narrator.Apart from that it was very enjoyable.
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- BookLover
- 13-11-24
Wonderfully narrated
The narrator was excellent. The story at its best when exploring Harriet Vine’s and Lord Wimsey’s relationship. Wonderful all round.
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- gytha
- 24-01-24
an enjoyable follow up to the ongoing relationship between Harriet and Wimsey
Harriet and Peter are at last Married. Crime however follows them to their honeymoon. A motley cast of characters make for an enjoyable read.
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- C. Serginson
- 16-08-22
The end
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.
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- Isabel Birney
- 12-10-24
A Grossly Self Indulgent Book, Ineptly Read
This is Dorothy Sayers at her most snobbish and self indulgent. Lord Peter Wimsy, Harriet Vane and The Dowager Duchess are,to her eyes,pictured as paragons. All other characters, apart from P
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- Nancie Buckland
- 07-12-24
Poor narration
Poor narrator of a wonderful story. Bring back Ian Carmichael. A very great shame. Sayers deserves better.
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- Patricia Jones
- 02-11-16
Sorry, wrong voice for these stories.
Where does Busman's Honeymoon rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Not very high, I found the reader's voice too light.
What did you like best about this story?
It's the one you wait for, where their story has its happy ending apart from a dead body and a hanging!
What three words best describe Jane McDowell’s performance?
Clear, pretty, wrong
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes
Any additional comments?
I love Dorothy L Sayers and have read all of the Lord Peter books. Unfortunately, though I love the story, I wasn't happy about the reader's voice. Very sorry M/s McDowell, you have a lovely voice, it is very clear and nice to listen too but I didn't like it for this audio book. I haven't been able to finish it.
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- LH, England
- 17-04-16
Annoying narrator
Would you be willing to try another one of Jane McDowell’s performances?
I will try to avoid this narrator, not only is it difficult to tell which character is speaking, but she didn't appear to have read through the story before beginning her reading, which means she'll come come across something such as "he said in a deep voice" and suddenly make that character's voice sound deepeer - but only in the second part of his comments. Most annoying was her talking about a "dessert" when the author had intended "desert", which made a mockery of that part of the story. Very lazy narration - and irritating because anyone who's ever done a voice over knows that all the reader needs to do is to say "I'll do that again" and read it correctly.
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- Tink21B
- 04-03-22
Excellent Story
This was an excellent story.
The characters were well written and the plot was absorbing with plenty of red herrings to sift through!
It was of it’s time however and Sayers writing reflects the racism and classism of her day (if I were Jewish I might be offended by her portrait of a debt collector, and I don’t speak French and Sayers offered no translation). I think it unfair to penalise a writer for reflecting their time and place but they did prove a distraction from the story so I thought they deserved mentioning.
There has been some criticism of the narrator in other reviews and it did take me a while to get used to her tone. However once I had settled into the story I thought she did a very good job.
I would definitely recommend reading/listening to this book.
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