As Someone Who Went Through A Huge Robin Hood Phase- One Of My Favorite RH Retellings Was A Short Story

As someone who went through a huge Robin Hood phase- one of my favorite RH retellings was a short story in a children's magazine in which the Sheriff of Nottingham secretly asks Alan-a-Dale to plant stories/rumors of an unstoppable theif so that he can avoid enforcing King John's taxes. With the understanding that he (the Sheriff) will be the villain in these stories.

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August, 1943. As the war rages on, Peter Wimsey wants nothing more than to spend a few quiet days with his family at Talboys. His plans are foiled by a call from Parker, with news of a triple murder that has the police completely stumped. Initially reluctant to involve himself, Peter finds himself drawn in as he learns the peculiar facts of the case. A man and his parents, found dead in their home: no signs of injury, no signs of a struggle, and no suspects, except one.

The gardener, Frank.

The coincidence is enough to convince Peter to examine the case, and his conviction that Frank is innocent makes him determined to find the true killer. But the more he looks into this case, the stranger the riddle grows. And the mystery takes another turn when he meets a tall, auburn-haired man with eccentric clothes and half-moon spectacles, who seems to know more than he lets on...

Meanwhile, at Talboys, Harriet writes to Peter with news that she can hardly believe, let alone put to paper. There must, she thinks, be some reasonable explanation for what five-year-old Roger just did.

But she can't escape the fact that it did look suspiciously like... magic.

Well! Last Monday evening, when we were down at Denver, we got a wire from Peter, which coolly said, "If you really want to see me married, try St. Cross Church, Oxford, to-morrow at two."

guys, the calender has lined up!! Tomorrow is Tuesday, the 8th of October, aka Lord Peter and Harriet's wedding day (and 89th anniversary). this is your chance to read Busman's Honeymoon in real time! (aside from the Dowager's diary, unfortunately)

If you do keep track of the days in Busman's Honeymoon, it's a bit unsettling how quickly it all happens, because SO MUCH happens. Tomorrow they will be married in Oxford; and the mystery (of which they are as yet blissfully unaware) will be solved on Friday. On Saturday, they will arrive at the Dower House in the small hours of the morning, and on Sunday Peter will read the lesson in church...

(Yes, in spite of all their mutual angst about the Peter's potential failure, he solves this one in forty-eight hours.)

absolutely baffled and befuddled by whoever managed to reverse the eye colors while coloring this in

i mean, come on. Audrey's big brown eyes are basically her trademark. O'Toole's unsettlingly piercing blue eyes are HIS trademark. Who are those people??

just T H White casually altering my brain chemistry three times in three totally different ways