Busman's Honeymoon

Following their wedding, Peter and Harriet retreat to Talboys, a house near Harriet's childhood home which Peter has bought for her. The previous owner, Mr. Noakes, is mysteriously absent when they arrive, and soon turns up dead in the cellar, and in a considerable amount of debt to creditors as well as his gardner, Crutchley, and niece, Miss Twitterton. Superintendent Kirk looks into the case, the last man having seen Noakes alive having been his constable, Sellon, who at first lies about it. Meanwhile Peter and Harriet have trouble focusing on it owing to conflicts between a sense of duty to investigate and an obligation to start their new relationship.