At last...Lord Peter Wimsey and his Harriet- the woman he had saved from a wrongful conviction for murder- were married. With the reception over and the reporters dodged, they only had to slip into the Daimler, which the suavely imperturbable Bunter had laden with provisions from Fortnum's and a tenderly wrapped crate of port, and cruise down to Paggleham for what should have been the most peaceful of honeymoons.
But this is 'a love story with detective interruptions'; the newly wedded lord and his lady were only allowed one night in their goose-feather marriage bed before a corpse presented itself.
This is a 'locked room' mystery but there's a massive cheat in that there is no way the reader can solve the problem because we are not told half the story.
What redeems this is the Harriet Vane character, she is as good as you get in detective fiction, clever funny and interesting. Its a shame Sayers didn't do more with her but explains why 'Gaudy Night' is my favourite book in this series.
More serious than early books with some character development going back into how Wimsey and Bunter paired up. Not the best of this series I've read but still better than most.
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