By Dorothy L. Sayers
They plan to have a quiet kingdom honeymoon. Then Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane locate the former owner's physique within the cellar. Set in a rustic village seething with secrets and techniques and snobbery, this can be Dorothy L. Sayers' final full-length detective novel. Variously defined as a love tale with detective interruptions and a detective tale with romantic interruptions, it lives as much as either descriptions with variety.
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