Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, together again, hooray! Harriet Vane has gone off for a vacation in a watering-place (watering-place. Brits are so weird.), and she happens upon a dead body, all throat-cut and bloody. The corpse is dancer Paul Alexis, who is engaged (slightly sordidly) to an extremely rich older woman called Mrs. Weldon, and appears to have been part of a strange Bolshevik type plot. All of the possible suspects have unbreakable alibis. Harriet will still not marry Peter, but he carries on badgering her to marry him anyway. I am mildly bothered by Peter’s continual badgering of…
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