moondust books

Finished strong poison and I really can’t just jump to the next one because I’m still so besotted with lord peter in love. Has a man ever been such a fucking disaster trainwreck. Handles the situation with the grace of a goose falling down some stairs & the best part is that while harriet is clearly bruised from her immensely awful ordeal she’s also clearly fascinated by whatever the fuck he has going on. What the fuck DOES he have going on. bunter calls him on it in .5 seconds because he’s been out at all hours trying to track down leads to prove harriet didn’t do it even though ALL AVAILABLE EVIDENCE SAYS SHE DID and he’s like (entirely serious) “how did bunter know i’m in love. i don’t think it’s super noticeable”

LITERALLY. Mr. fake-idgafer, famed for being inscrutable under his mask of silliness, walks into a jail, immediately goes "hi hello um do you wanna get married please" and then starts falling over his own feet when he realizes that he has accidentally been rude to Harriet. Then he spends a month bolting around London looking for clues, tells everyone who gently suggests that maybe Harriet did it to go to hell (including his best friend the Scotland Yard man), and somehow?? proves it??? with the power of love I guess???? Also he says that he "rushed off to his mother and said, 'look here, here's simply the one and only woman and she's being tried for murder and for God's sake come and hold my hand!'" like he sees *a murderess (as far as he knows)*, falls in love instantly, and instantly bursts down his mother's door like Candance in that one meme going "MOM THE LOVE OF MY LIFE IS ON DEATH ROW". The man is a maniac.