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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of March 15, 1937

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OF MICE AND MEN
John Steinbeck
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OF MICE AND MEN

by John Steinbeck · Covici, Friede

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THE STORY: Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the fat of the land, have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerousl

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BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON
Dorothy L. Sayers
Cover of BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON

BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON

by Dorothy L. Sayers · Harcourt, Brace

2 wks on list

Busman's Honeymoon is a 1937 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her eleventh (and last) featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It is the fourth and last novel to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from their usual routine of solving crimes (him) and writing about them (her), but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with severe head injuries.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.