I think I'd quite like to live in a Golden Age Murder Mystery

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Other than the actual murder.

But I quite fancy living in a big house and having a dashing suitor called Henry who motors down at the weekend. We'd play tennis or throw drinks parties, and neighbours would come for afternoon tea.

There'd probably be an unmarried aunt (possibly with a tragic backstory) and a terribly clever younger sister at Girton.

At some point I'd probably have my hair bobbed and shock the aforementioned neighbours while my mother said "it's a phase these modern young girls go through".

My flat is doing a good job of standing in for a big draughty house (I'm writing this from bed under several blankets) so really I think I'm
partway there already!

What book would you disappear into if you could?

IrenetheQuaint, have you slashed Peter/Bunter? I had a look last night. Dear me.

I've never slashed anyone, Parthenope but I did once take part in an excellent thread on here a few years ago about Lord Peter's proclivities. I think it was generally agreed, on the basis of a few textual hints, that he had been quite sexually adventurous (in all directions) in his younger days.

Are there hints he was into men, too? I still haven't read all the Peter Wimsey books, being more of a fan of Harriet -- though I remember all those knowingly pervy bits from Uncle Paul in French, about how he'd 'had him taught his work', which I vaguely assumed meant the old perv had hired some soignée French courtesan to give the young Peter lessons in erotic technique...?

Yes, there is a moment of flirtation with Impey Biggs - who is clearly gay, if you read between the lines.