Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Strong Poison, (Paperback)

from Kasthu

Strong Poison is the first Lord Peter Wimsey mystery that features Harriet Vane. When Harriet Vane, a mystery writer, goes on trial for the murder of her lover, who is also an author, Lord Peter sets out to exonerate her-falling in love with her as he does so. Harriet is less developed as a chara...

from infjsarah

I'd read this before as a teenager and this was much more as I remembered the series from then. Some sections reflect that it was written in the 1920s but actually much more modern than you might expect. And it was often quite amusing too. Much better than "Whose Body?"

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This, first in the trilogy of the Oxford classics major's semi-autobiographical mysteries, ending in Gaudy Night (made a PBS Mystery series). Here's a brilliant, multifold ironic tale, the best of the three Sayers I've re-read in the last month. Only drawback, a long early discourse, too dense in...

from DeltaQueen50

Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers is a milestone in her Lord Peter Wimsey series as in this volume he meets Harriet Vane and declares her to be his future wife. The fact that she is currently on trial for murder holds no sway with Lord Peter as he is 100 percent convinced of her innocence. In fa...

from richardderus

The Book Report: Lord Peter Wimsey, younger brother of the Duke of Denver, bibliophile, and dilettante in the arts and sciences of murder, meets his One True Love, the Other Half of His Soul; where else would he do this, but in court? Too bad she's the accused in a rather sensational murder trial...