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Strong Poison

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 6

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Strong Poison

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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Can Lord Peter Wimsey prove that Harriet Vane is not guilty of murder--or find the real poisoner in time to save her from the gallows?

Impossible, it seems. The Crown's case is watertight. The police are adamant that the right person is on trial. The judge's summing up is also clear. Harriet Vane is guilty of killing her lover. And Harriet Vane shall hang.

But the jury disagrees.

©1930 The Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton Crime Fiction Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Detective

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"She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy and wit." (P. D. James)
"D. L. Sayers is one of the best detective story writers." (E. C. Bentley, Daily Telegraph)
"I admire her novels...she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail." (Ruth Rendell)
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Yet more great detectin, on an almost impossible case to prove. Brilliant characters and written with hummer.

Strong Poison

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Introducing Harriet Vane, this is a classic mystery. Romance, espionage, spiritualism & spinsters all play a part in one of the most challenging cases of Lord Peter's career.

Did she do it?

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Good story, slightly spoilt at times by strange pronunciation of words and very odd phrasing of sentences.

Classic crime

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Loved this from beginning to end. Cleverly written and suspenseful. Brilliantly narrated with comic touches.

Fantastic Story

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It’s a shame that the narrator can’t research the pronunciation of some fairly key words for this novel; Urquhart, Bredon, Balliol, sundries, St George, Death, to name a few.

A good novel marred by poor narration

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Love all the Lord Peter stories, very well read the performance was top hole. The question is audible when do we get Gaudy Night and Have His Carcase?

Excellent

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I really didn’t feel this wonderful novel worked with a female narrator and particularly one who didn’t know how to pronounce ‘Yde Park... (it’s Hyde Park without the ‘h’, not ‘Iddeyer’.

Wrong narrator

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DLS’s stories are old favourites of mine, read and re-reread many, many, times. These Jane McDowell readings are accurate and the French well rendered but the lady, hard though she tries, has a poor command of the idiomatic. She rather breathlessly renders many phrases with incorrect emphasis. Many an old-fashioned phrase is less than perfectly interpreted. Rehearsal and editing might help. A great pleasure tinged with irritation.

Excellent story, accurately but not well read.

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This was unexpected, it's very much of its time and yet (possibly because it's written by a woman) it felt refreshingly modern.
Personally I wasn't really invested in the mystery although it's perfectly fine but not gripping. I would recommend this for those who love murder mystery's but I don't think I'll re-visit the Lord Peter Wimsey series.

A refreshingly modern feeling clasic

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Im sorry I know everyone thinks shes The Don, but I got bored this. The plot would have made a good short story and the narration was confusing as I couldn't work out who was speaking what dialog when. Disappointing.

Meh....

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