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Strong poison dorothy sayers6/5/2023 ![]() Harriet Vane is guilty of killing her lover and Harriet Vane must hang. The police are adamant that the right person is on trial. Wimsey, attending the trial, is convinced she is innocent and sets out to prove it … and falls in love with her. ![]() ![]() The two first meet in Strong Poison, when Harriet is on trial for the murder of her former lover, Philip Boyes. The two of her books I’ve read recently are Strong Poison (first published in 1930) and Gaudy Night (first published in 1935), both featuring Harriet Vane, a crime fiction novelist, and her relationship with Lord Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur detective. She is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, but as well as writing crime fiction she also wrote poems, plays, essays, books on religion and was a translator – most notably of Dante’s Divine Comedy. She learned Latin and French at the age of seven, went to Somerville College, Oxford and in 1915 she graduated with a first class honours degree in modern languages. However, I doubt very much that I can do justice to either of these books.ĭorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) was born at Christchurch Cathedral School, Oxford, where her father was the headmaster. I’m no longer attempting to write about every book I read but I do want to record a few of my thoughts on two of Dorothy L Sayers’ books that I’ve read recently because they are both such good books. ![]()
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