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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2012-10-25 08:19 pm
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Even more things Dorothy L Sayers didn't write

Groom’s wedding night confession. Marriage nullified, judge recommends further charges.
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[personal profile] antisoppist 2012-10-25 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Interestingly "titled bride slays valet and self" doesn't seem to fit.

You have the need for a Busman's Honeymoon Disasters tag?
nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Harriet)

[personal profile] nineveh_uk 2012-10-26 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps you could have "Novelist" or "Notorious" bride.

I have ruined Peter and Harriet's wedding night 5 times and am working on the sixth. Also, it is convenient to be able to look up the others when I'm doing it again.
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[personal profile] antisoppist 2012-10-26 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
That is much better. I was more thinking that her reaction was more likely to be along the lines of "I might have known it was too good to last. Back to the drawing board/a life of academic contemplation" (not that I was putting it very clearly at that time of night)

nineveh_uk: Illustration that looks like Harriet Vane (Harriet)

[personal profile] nineveh_uk 2012-10-26 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
I agree that Harriet's not really likely to reach for the gun (hence the court case for annullment). Perhaps she can have a fling with Saint-George to get the Wimsey's out of her system.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2012-10-25 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)

[identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com 2012-10-25 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Buggering his valet, one assumes?

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-26 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Well it could have been massive financial misconduct.
tree_and_leaf: Dark haired woman, pen and ink drawing with watercolour. Looks a bit like Harriet Vane. (Harriet)

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2012-10-26 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, I'm now wondering what it could be, in order to nullify the marriage. Groom was physically a woman?

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-26 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Depending on Peter's timing, presumably non-consummation! There's an amusing bit of MS for Thrones, Dominations that JPW naturally left out in which Harriet asks why Peter never tried to seduce her into marrying him, and his answer is basically "performance anxiety".

(Anonymous) 2012-10-26 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Performance Anxiety? Peter? The mind boggles rather....

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[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-29 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's in a context of “I couldn’t stand the thought of your sleeping with me and not really wanting to, and I’d be worried that you didn’t really want to, and so...”

(Anonymous) 2012-10-29 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah that makes more sense. and is horribly plausible too...
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tree_and_leaf: Dark haired woman, pen and ink drawing with watercolour. Looks a bit like Harriet Vane. (Harriet)

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2012-10-27 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes, the obvious ground. *head-desk*

JPW would cut that out, curse her!

[identity profile] sonetka.livejournal.com 2012-10-27 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe the groom was actually somebody else posing as Peter? I think identity fraud would be enough to nullify a marriage as well. Maybe it's Peter One or Peter Two from that short story where he's trying to get the formula.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Death Bredon is actually Peter's clone twin :-)

Impersonation definitely nullifies a marriage.

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2012-10-29 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Goodness, I'd just assumed he'd confessed to the murder! I mean, when you've got a murder on the premises, isn't that what you confess to? Anything else would be... well, untidy. Or something.
tree_and_leaf: Dark haired woman, pen and ink drawing with watercolour. Looks a bit like Harriet Vane. (Harriet)

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2012-10-29 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, a confession of murder might well be grounds for divorce, but discovering your spouse isn't, in and of itself, grounds for annullment, because annullment is a ruling that the marriage was never valid, not merely that it's been dissolved. But as nineveh_uk points out, the non-consummation which might result from such a confession would be, I was just forgetting the most obvious grounds for an annullment!

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-29 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)

I don’t think discovering Peter had murdered Mr Noakes would in itself be grounds for Harriet to divorce him at the time, and they haven’t been married long enough for him to commit adultery. Post-1937 maybe Harriet could divorce Peter for desertion, but as the same law changed things so you couldn’t get divorced in the first three years of marriage, she’d still have to wait.
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[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2012-10-29 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
And it would be hard to slope off to Brighton with a hired nobody if you were in the condemned cell...

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-29 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Though it has just struck me that Peter could always divorce Harriet for adultery.

(Anonymous) 2016-07-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
But that would have got Peter thrown in jail as homosexual doings were still against the law in the thirties.
tree_and_leaf: Dark haired woman, pen and ink drawing with watercolour. Looks a bit like Harriet Vane. (Harriet)

[personal profile] tree_and_leaf 2012-10-25 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I think I'm relieved she didn't....

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-26 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's probably for the best.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
My shortest fic ever!
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[personal profile] tinx_r 2012-10-25 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
:D

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
:-)
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