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Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane (Paperback)

By Dorothy L. Sayers
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The classic mystery that first featured Harriet Vane, companion sleuth to the dashing, perennially popular private investigator Lord Peter Wimsey, from the writer widely considered the greatest mystery novelist of the Golden Age—Dorothy L. Sayers.

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiancÉ died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to prove her innocent—as determined as he was to make her his wife.

With an introduction by Elizabeth George

About the Author

Dorothy L. Sayers was born in 1893. She was one of the first women to be awarded a degree by Oxford University, and later she became a copywriter at an ad agency. In 1923 she published her first novel featuring the aristocratic detective Lord Peter Wimsey, who became one of the world's most popular fictional heroes. She died in 1957.

Praise for Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery with Harriet Vane…

“A model detective story. . . . fascinating.”
-New York Times

“Here is unquestionably a shining star in the mystery story firmament and the best of all the Lord peter Wimsey stories—until the next comes along.”
-Saturday Review of Literature

“The end of this story is as ingenious as any solution could be.”
-Times Literary Supplement (London)

Product Details ISBN-10: 0062196200
ISBN-13: 9780062196200
Published: Harper Paperbacks, 10/01/2012
Pages: 288
Language: English
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