nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Default)
nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2013-12-06 09:55 am

The valet with a candlestick in the library

I have I my hands a copy of Peter Wimsey Investigates the Late Scholar, by Jill Paton Walsh, the prospect of which I have already discussed. I may or may not be able to read it over the weekend in view of the million and one other things I need to do.

In the interim, I offer:

[Poll #1946773]
(deleted comment)

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2013-12-06 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I love this idea! It would be absolutely full of angst and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Bunter's only into the detective stuff because Peter is - he's not going to be offering consoling cocoa when Peter's weeping over hanging Bunter's girlfriend. Perhaps Peter's best option is to get Hope to commit suicide and then shoot himself. Or Bunter has to choose between staying in England and fleeing abroad with her.

[identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com 2013-12-07 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Bunter's only into the detective stuff because Peter is

I wonder if Peter still tries to get Bunter to chat up female servants to elicit information despite having a wife, and how well Bunter reacts to this.