Eleven Things that Weren’t Written by Dorothy L. Sayers, VII

[nineveh_uk]

Spoilers and disclaimers (incl. for directly quoted text) as usual.

Have his Carcase

I

Harriet Vane looked out at the sweeping rain. She had started on a solitary walking-tour of the south coast: plenty of exercise, no responsibilities, and no letters forwarded. The time was June, the weather hitherto perfect. She had intended to spend the day walking the sixteen miles along the cliffs to Wilvercombe. But the sky was black, her lodgings comfortable, and she had had an idea for The Fountain-Pen Mystery. She turned her back on the lowering clouds and ran down the stairs to reserve her room for a second night.

II

Harriet watched Wimsey as he ran, bathing-suited, down over the sand.

‘And he strips better than I expected,’ she admitted candidly to herself. ‘Better shoulders than I realised, and calves to his legs, and really a very nice bum.’

III

‘I say, Peter! That’s not a bad idea for a novel.’

‘What?’

‘The blood. If one could contrive a situation in which the only evidence for the time of death was that the blood hadn’t clotted, and contrive some way that the blood wouldn’t clot, then the murderer could arrange a false alibi.’

‘Harriet!’

‘My God, Peter. You don’t think that Henry Weldon – ’

‘No. Not arrange it – you said that Henry Weldon was stupid. And arranging that sort of thing would require a good deal of ingenuity. But there is another possibility.’

IV

And dinner. And dancing. And so to bed.

‘Oh my Lord!’

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Plus one or two extras in the comments courtesy of azdak.

Comments

More Wimsey Fic

[(Anonymous)]

I love your forays into Wimsey Fic! On several lists, this would be off topic, but there is a new Wimsey Fic out there. For people such as myself who have long been admirers of both Dorothy L. Sayers and Dorothy Dunnet, 'tis too good to be true. Have you seen it? It's on fanfiction.net courtesy of Thessaly.

Wallicar

Re: More Wimsey Fic

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen it, but I always like to see new Wimseyfic, so thanks for the notice. I see that the author has also done one with Raffles, of which I was unaware (actually, I liked that one better, as it has more to offer the reader ignorant of the other texts).