Sayers Dorothy L.
Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
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Lord Peter Wimsey encounters a lady in distress: she has been wrongly accused of murder. The lady is none other than Harriet Vane, the writer of mystery novels, and one of Dorothy Sayers' most famous creations. This novel marks her first appearance in literature.Review“A model detective story . . . fascinating.” —The New York Times “The end of this story is as ingenious as any solution could be.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Here is unquestionably a shining star in the mystery firmament and the best of all the Lord Peter stories—until the next comes along.” —The Saturday Review of Literature.A good murder mystery with lots of delightful humorThis is the first novel by Dorothy Sayers where Harriet Vane appears. She will reappear in a couple of forthcoming novels. She is a strong-willed outspoken woman in an age when women were felt to be better suited to look good but be silent and compliant. Lord Peter Wimsey, the whimsical hero of the Sayer novels, attends a trial where Harriet is charged for poisoning her lover, a man she lived with for some time. Both she and the man she lived with are novelists, but she made far more money with her books than he did. He refused to marry her until one day when he proposed. Harriet’s answer was to walk out on him. She is extremely fortunate to have as one of the jurors in her case a woman who works for Wimsey. As a result of this juror’s persistence, her refusal to agree with others and find her innocent, there is a mistrial, no decision, and a need for another trial, which would be held in a month. If proof could be found to show her innocence, it must be found within the month.The man died by arsenic poisoning. It could have been self-administered, suicide. But how can this be proven.As he sat watching the trial, Wimsey falls in love with Harriet, goes to the jail to meet her, and proposes marriage. He promises her that he will find a way to prove her innocence.Besides being a good mystery with clues, the book is filled with humor. The humor is found in the way people talk and act, all the people in the tale, especially Peter Wimsey. What he does makes sense, but it is eccentrics.
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