addition to the fully developed Incharacters of Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions, there are a number of additions to the Sayers portrait gallery. Mr. Puffet the sweep is Sayers's version of Alfred Doolittle, George Bernard Shaw's philosophical dustman. The Rev. Simon Goodacre joins the Rev. Theodore Venables of The Nine Tailors (1934) as an exemplar of the good-hearted innocent clergy of the best high church tradition of the English Church. Miss Twitterton is a variation of Miss Climpson (who reappears briefly) but with the scrupulosity tarnished a bit by an all-too-human infatuation with the unscrupulous Frank Crutchley. Crutchley himself, although an uninteresting villain, is an all-too-believable one. Inspector Kirk's penchant for literary tags should have dispelled criticism that Sayers does not allow an intellectual life to her lowerclass characters; however, curiously, Kirk's habits had the unfortunate effect of eliciting...