Strong Poison
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060809089 (0060809086)
ASIN: 0060809086
Publish date: 1987-10
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Fiction,
Historical
The triumphant return of reading notes! This month, I plan to re-read and talk about four mysteries by Dorothy Sayers. Specifically, those which feature both Harriet Vane & Lord Peter Wimsey, since Harriet + Peter = otp forever. As always, these posts may (will!) contain massive spoilers so beware i...
bookshelves: published-1930, winter-20102011, mystery-thriller, poison Read from January 21 to 28, 2011 * Dorothy L Sayers mystery with Ian Carmichael. "
I probably should've read these in order, but my book club picked out a couple to read, so this was one of them.'Strong Poison' is a solid, old-fashioned mystery. I thought it was a little bit predictable, but Sayers being influential on the development of the mystery genre probably has a lot to do ...
This was beautiful. Almost everything was perfect (OK, Peter randomly proposing quite early was a bit odd but Harriet's reaction to it made up for that).According to very reliable sources (*cough* Wikipedia) this book was inspired by the Florence Maybrick-case and it does have parallels (the nurse a...
I loved this! It made me laugh, and I didn't see the mystery's solution coming.Also-- I want a butler.
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