Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh

During the 1940s Blitz in London, Lord Peter Wimsey is conducting secret business for the Foreign Office. Meanwhile, in the country, Harriet is shocked by the murder of a young Land Girl.

Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Vane, the detective story writer, are settling into their new life together in London. It is 1936, and London is a social whirl for the fashionable and wealthy. When murder strikes, Harriet becomes drawn into a case which casts an unexpected light on her own life with Peter.