by Dorothy L. Sayers
Synopsis: During her court trial, Lord Peter Wimsey finds himself falling head over heels in love with defendant Harriet Vane who is charged with murdering her former lover, Philip Boyes, with arsenic. At their first meeting, he proposes to her - but will she accept? And even more important, can he ...
This was a very good book. In it, Peter Wimsey first meets the love of his life, Harriet Vane, a writer of mystery novels. She is accused of murdering her former lover with arsenic, and Peter sets out to prove she didn’t commit the murder. His clock is ticking too – he has only one month to collect ...
Although this is the sixth Wimsey mystery, it's the first in which Harriet Vane appears. The book begins with Harriet Vane on trial for having poisoned her ex-lover. Pretty much every one is convinced of her guilt, but not Lord Peter Wimsey. Wimsey decides to see that she gets off, not merely in a t...
By now you will have surmised that I got a load of Sayers books in 2006 and had at them. True.This one is the first one with Sayers' authorial insertion character, Harriet Vane, which works out a lot better than you might expect. Sayers is quite realistic about herself, it's Wimsey she puts on a lud...
Things are not going well at Harriet Vane's trial for the murder of her former lover, Philip Boyes – hearing the judge's summation, only the most unrealistic of minds could conclude that she is not guilty as charged. One such mind, however, is that of Lord Peter Wimsey – the same Lord Peter who, n...
I just finished re-reading this and discovered, to my delight, that it improves with every reading. "Strong Poison" is an odd combination of murder mystery and romance. Lord Peter does very little real detecting and shares so much time with the other characters that he comes dangerously close to b...
The novel where we meet Harriet Vane, mystery writer accused of poisoning her ex-lover just like she wrote in one of her novels. We are introduced to Harriet via Lord Peter's infatuation with her and him realizing that he's fallen for the one woman who probably will not readily accept his marriage p...
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