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    Audiobook (abridged)8 hours

    Hochzeit kommt vor dem Fall

    Written by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Narrated by Christian Brückner

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    Es ist so weit: Lord Peter Wimsey heiratet die Kriminalschriftstellerin Harriet Vane. Doch das Eheglück bleibt nicht lange unbeschwert, denn im Keller ihres Flitterwochen-Domizils liegt die Leiche des ehemaligen Besitzers. Darf sich ein Gentleman auf seiner Hochzeitsreise mit Mord befassen?
    LanguageDeutsch
    PublisherAUDIOBUCH
    Release dateJun 3, 2014
    ISBN9783899648522
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    Hochzeit kommt vor dem Fall
    Author

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts.

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    • 3/5
      We spend a lot of time in Harriet's mind as she learns about her new husband and well, deals with him. Very fine feelings that woman has but still I'd rather not be an audience for such idealizations. The mystery is lackluster and exposure to the good people of the village and their foibles, in which, well, I no longer really believe, is prolonged and therefore even less interesting than I once might have found it.
    • 4/5
      2020 reread via audiobook narrated by Ian Carmichael (courtesy of MVLN).I am upping my rating from 3 to 4 stars - I guess that I have mellowed in my old age re:Harriet!! I especially loved the episolatory section at the beginning.
    • 3/5
      Sayers most romantic Lord Peter mystery. Our favority detective interrupts his own honeymoon to solve the puzzle.
    • 3/5
      Harriet and Peter on honeymoon desperately wanting to do right by each other. What sets Peter Wimsey apart from other literary sleuths is his sense of responsibility for the consequences of his actions, that whilst finding the culprit is an intellectual game for him, is a matter of the hangman's noose for the guilty.
    • 4/5
      Where I got the book: my bookshelf. Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey are married at last, and have purchased an old house in the country where they intend to honeymoon. They arrive to find that the previous owner hasn't put things in order as he promised, and find out (mercifully AFTER the wedding night) that there's a good reason...This novel was based on a stage play that Sayers wrote with a friend (presumably to capitalize on the popularity of Gaudy Night, the previous Wimsey/Vane book.) You can still, if you think about it, see the original bones of the play's structure underneath the accretion of quotations, letters and inner monologues that glorify The Relationship into something way larger than any real relationship could be. Having spent so long getting her two characters together, Sayers endows them with superhuman amounts of tact, class and sexual prowess (hinted at above and beyond the bounds of delicacy.) The bones rest on the murder story itself, which is quite ingeniously done with a very devious murder method and a pretty decent supporting cast.As for the rest...Sayers seems to have decided that now that she's made Harriet and Wimsey fall in love, she's going to make them very, very happy. Wimsey does, at the end, fall prey to the psychological problems that have haunted him since the War, but Harriet, naturally, provides the outlet for his guilt and pain so we're all good.Don't get me wrong, I find this book very enjoyable and have read it several times. But after Gaudy Night which is a heartfelt exploration of her characters' psychology, Sayers seems content to fall back on a mess of quotations, sturm und drang and family ghosts to fill out her murder plot. However enjoyable, I'm kind of glad it was her last full-length Wimsey book. She needed to rein herself in and didn't.
    • 5/5
      This novel is really much more of a love story than a mystery, as Dorothy L Sayers herself acknowledged. But for readers who followed the story of Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane through the three previous novels which featured both characters, it is a most satisfying love story and a welcome culmination to the years of Peter's patient courtship and Harriet's determined resistance. Tbere's enough of a mystery to make it worthy of being called a mystery novel, but no more than that. Apart from the love story and the mystery, Busman's Honeymoon is an interesting reflection of the era in which it was written, with its depiction of English attitudes to class and race (not critical, but descriptive and not the less interesting for that). There's a lot of French in it, which is ok for me because I am reasonably fluent in that language, but it must be a trial for readers who are not. I know how they feel, because there's a bit of Latin in there as well, the meaning of which I can only guess at. (I have an old edition of Busman's Honeymoon - probably printed in the 1970s - with no translations or notes: possibly more recent editions translate the bits which aren't in English?) Anyway, even if it could be considered pretentious by today's standards, I love the French and the Latin...and the poetry with which each chapter starts and which characters quote with abandon. They don't write mysteries like this anymore, more's the pity!
    • 3/5
      Newlyweds Peter and Harriet make goo-goo eyes, talk shmoopy-shmoopy, and nudge-nudge wink-wink about the bridal chamber. Noble butler Bunter calls a lady a b***h for agitating Peter's wine. And it all culminates in an Amnesty International pledge drive.
    • 3/5
      No. 4 in the third four volume set. It was the best of the four books, but still, Sayers appears to have been a “paid by the word” Dickensonian writer. In this volume, she did not drone on about cricket (no. 1), or make your head ring with the how, why, length of the concert of the “Fenchurch ring of eight” bells (no.2), nor produce a book of more than a dozen suspects who could all have potentially “done it,” all to introduce a new detective as a foil to Peter Wimsey. No, the forth book read like the script of a stage play. Not to be a total spoiler alert, but this book was evidently originally written for the stage. Bah.
    • 5/5
      Lord Peter and Harriet Vane finally tie the knot and head off for a private honeymoon in an English country house that has caught Harriet's eye. However, the discovery of the body of the house's former owner in the cellar means it will be a working holiday for the newly wed sleuths. Not only is the mystery engrossing, but Sayers explores the nature of egalitarian marriage and the power of money in marriage. Excellent.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed this book a lot when I originally read it and enjoying it again as I reread it. What is nice reading it as an e-book is that it easier to translate the French that it is intermittently used. I have loved all the Peter Wimsey books and I;m glad I re-purchased this one. I think I gave away my paper copy a long time ago.
    • 5/5
      Peter and Harriet are married and travel to a house they have bought in the country for their honeymoon, but find it unprepared for them. The next morning the former owner is found dead in the cellar. At least equal time is given to the relationship between Peter and Harriet and the adjustments they and Bunter make. The beginning, describing various reactions to the news of their engagement is very funny and there is not too much actual detection. The culprit is accidentally surprised into a confession and there were not that many suspects to start with. I wonder what happened to Joe Sellon...
    • 4/5
       Another re-read, following on from Gaudy Night. Ahh, those first days of marriage, when you can't quite get used to the idea of being married, when you wander around with a daft grin on your face, when you get used the the other person being there, and when you discover that the previous owner of the house has been lying dead in your cellar. All does not go well on Harriet & Peter's wedding night. They are successfully smuggled from the wedding breakfast and into the house they've bought in the country, but from there is goes less well. The house is shut up and locked, no sign of the previous owner. The cast assembles itself, the nosy neighbour, the niece, the gardener, the sweep,the vicar - all the local characters are present and correct. And so the mystery is revealed. The elements are all there, they fit together neatly, but the joy of the re-read is that you can see them coming together in a way that you don't on the first time of asking. Alongside the detective side you have the ongoing relationship between Harriet & Peter, they're still finding their way together and the blossoming relationship shouldn't fit with the rather sordid murder, but it does, if only as counterpoint. This ends with an execution, but it also ends with Peter in his Harriet's arms and all will b well - possibly not without its ups and downs, but they will survive this as so much else.
    • 5/5
      My first Sayers (I know, I know, I'm reading them out of order), and I enjoyed it immensely. Some excellent laugh-out-loud lines and a nice complex mystery. Now to go back and start at the beginning ...
    • 4/5
      "A love story with detective interruptions" definitely says it, if you take "love story" as more literary than romance. It does kind of feel like two books sometimes (maybe Middlemarch meets a well-written mystery novel), but toward the very end they converge beautifully. I can't say I love it as much as Gaudy Night, but that may be because I'm just such a Harriet Vane fan, and this book is less about her as an individual and more about how she and her husband (and his long-time attendant) figure out what life will be like together.
    • 4/5
      Always a pleasure to reread Sayers.
    • 4/5
      Always enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      This is my least favorite of the Peter Wimsey mysteries, and whenever I reread it I'm pleasantly surprised by how much better it is than I remember it being.What always throws me off is random, clumsy scenes and transitions - the scene, for example, where Bunter discovers the housekeeper dusting the wine bottles. It reads clumsily on the page, and seems to play Bunter for laughs in a way that undermines what we know of his character. There are scenes like this all over the book, and from the first time I read it, they have always jumped out at me, and pulled me out of my enjoyment of the rest of it.Years later, I discovered why. Sayers didn't write this book. A friend of hers wrote a stage play using the characters, and when publishers and public were badgering her for more Peter Wimsey, she grabbed the play and adapted it. This revelation clarified everything. I can see an audience roaring with laughter at Bunter's sudden discomfiture, and so many of the scenes I deplore are now revealed as stage directions converted to text.Having said all that, there is a lot to like about this book. Peter and Harriet are wonderful characters, and watching them settle in to life together is a joy. The whole game of quotations they constantly play is well worth whatever anyone might pay for a copy. There are other memorable characters, and Sayers did a good job with dialogue and setting.This gets four stars, which is low only in that everything else in this series gets five.
    • 3/5
      This is a locked-door mystery as well as a murder in which the act leading to death happens way before the death itself (as is the case in many of Dorothy Sayers books), which sort of makes the locked door less of an obstacle. I did not guess whodunit, but I'm not sure I really cared. As she touched on in her note before the story, the "love-interest" and the "detective-interest" do not always mesh well. Lots of literary references, many of them obscure and not necessarily more clever than P.G. Wodehouse's. And then there are the letters from Lord Peter's uncle written in French with no clue in English as to what profound statements about life and love they contain. Still, I wanted to read it to the end; it's only after the book is over that it feels lacking.
    • 4/5
      Lord Peter No. 11, 1937Even though their honeymoon is (partly) spent with crime solving, Sayers finds time for subtle romancing.
    • 4/5
      Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, Harriet Vane, are caught up in a murder case while honeymooning in a newly acquired home in a small English village. We know, of course, that Lord Peter and his wife who shares his sleuthing talents, will solve the case. What we are allowed to witness in this book, however, is the personal cost to Lord Peter as he sends a man to his death. As an officer in WWI, Lord Peter was called upon to order many of his men into battles from which they did not return. Having a sensitive nature, he did not easily recover from this knowledge and suffers from nightmares and renewed psychological distress whenever confronted with being the agent to send a man once more to death no matter what crime has been committed. We also witness the healing qualities of a loving marriage as Harriet struggles to comfort and help him through this traumatic experience. A very literate book displaying the considerable intellectual breadth and depth of the mind of Dorothy Sayers.
    • 5/5
      Loved the read--but then I was predisposed to.Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane finally get married & (almost incidentally) solve the problem of nasty Noakes who sold his 'country' house to them being found with his head bashed in in the celler.No, this probably wasn't the best if you're looking for tight plots & procedurals.But I really loved:Dowager Duchess of Denver's appearances--she is so sweetly loving & adaptable to anything Lord Peter comes up with.Bunter losing his cool with the dreadful Mrs Ruddles over port.The so sarky snobbish Helen.The loyal, unworldly lady dons of Harriet's 'home' college.The wonderfully nasty yet charismatic Frank CrutchleyThe vicar & cactus devotee, Mr Goodacre.Their game of applied quotations.So yes--I really enjoyed reading it, though it might not qualify as a great whodunnit it felt like a cross between fantasy & nostalgia for a time I never experienced.
    • 1/5
      Murder on the Wimseys' honeymoon--ingenious at times but the least compelling of the Wimsey mysteries
    • 3/5
      By this point in her series, Sayers has indisputably committed an unforgivable sin in writing: falling in love with her own protagonist. In every book, Lord Peter Wimsey has become more and more of a superman; he even gets taller and better-looking as the books progress. (under 5'9'' in the first book, he is a little under 6' by the last) He goes from an underdeveloped fair-haired Bertie Wooster to a sleek, muscled, intelligent, superhero by the end, who can do everything, from playing the piano like a maestro to swimming to rowing. Needless to say, he is lovable in the beginning, insufferable by the end. Even worse, she writes herself into her books--not, in the Agatha Christie style, as a wittering, absent-minded, endearing Ariadne Ollivers who eats about 20 apples a day and sheds hairpins wherever she goes, but as the persecuted, brilliant, and "oddly captivating" herione (at least, so were are told, by our clearly unbiased narrator) who MARRIES her detective. Both become increasingly, obnoxiously, and sickeningly perfect as time goes on. ugh. They become embarrassing, like reading the effusions of a 13-year-old writing fantasy fiction, where it is painfully clear that the authoress is the heroine and the hero is the Man Of Her Dreams. This book is so sickening in the romantic outpourings of the daydreaming author that it is difficult to read and somewhat of a disappointing end to the series; however, the side characters are still entertaining and enjoyable, and although it is difficult to appreciate the perfect-man-Wimsey, one gets flashes every so often of the human character he was before he was placed on his pedestal.
    • 5/5
      In the words of Ms. Sayers: "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."This is really a gift to the many fans of Lord Peter and Harriet Vane, and thus should really only be read after one has read all of the other Lord Peter mysteries (or at the very least, Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night). On its own, I'm not sure if it's really that great a mystery, but it IS a wonderful love story about two strong-minded people who've found love later in life and must figure out how to make married life work.
    • 4/5
      I always foruget how much I like Dorothy Sayers. And after this novel, I will always like Lord Peter better. He's clever but I have previously thought him pretenious. British nobility can hardly avoid it. It is interesting how the story is told primarily fromthe perspecitve of Harriet, his new wife; or from bunter, his "man"; we never see what Lard Peter is thinking or feeling except as translated by those who know him best. And how much managing he requires! i thought I lucky I am that my husband doesn't require that much managing, waiting, hoping,a nd understanding. Though, probably my single female friends think I spend too much time and energy managing my husband. Oh, what we do for love.
    • 5/5
      The story of what happens on Lord Peter's honeymoon - loads of fun. Also a great look into the Wimsey-Vane marriage. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      I love Dorothy Sayers. She has a wonderful writing style, a highly educated mind, and a delightful wit. Some more adult content.
    • 4/5
      Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane are just married. Discovering a body in the cellar of their new home, the ameteur sleuth and detective novelist find themselves engaged in a very interesting albeit morbid honeymoon. Fun characters, a good plot. Nothing gorey or disturbing!
    • 5/5
      A well written Wimsey mystery /romance. Also in insight into English society of the 20's with a degree of casual racism that would be unacceptable today. The huge differences between the classes at the time is also evident.Well worth the re reading.
    • 5/5
      Dorothy Sayers created the perfect complement to Lord Peter, Harriet Vane. Of course you know I think this is a wonderful book, full of humor, pathos and romance. Lord Peter and his wife, Harriet, begin their married life by trying to avoid the massive press invasion that celebrities are subjected to. They begin well, by having a quiet wedding and slipping past the reporters to their secret home in the country. Things go downhill from there though, because a corpse is discovered in the basement. Now begins the real test of the marriage. Will it survive the solution to the mystery