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Strong Poison is a 1930 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and the first in which Harriet Vane appears. Plot
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery is a series of television adaptations of three Lord Peter Wimsey novels—Strong Poison, Have his Carcase and Gaudy Night—by Dorothy L. Sayers. The series follows the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter's romance with the crime writer Harriet Vane , and stars Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey, Harriet Walter as Vane and ...
Episode: Strong Poison: Episode One, Strong Poison: Episode Three 1985 Them and Us: Mrs. Morton Episode: Caesar's Snarl 1985 Drummonds: Miss. Fenton Episode: A Woman Lost and Found 1985 The Pickwick Papers: Miss. Whiterfield Episode 1.6, 1.7 1984 Love and Marriage: Mrs. Murphy Episode: A Matter of Will 1983 Dombey & Son: Miss. Tox 1982 Jackanory
Strong Poison: 17 May 1976: 6 episodes adapted by Chris Miller, directed by Simon Brett. [11] 6: The Five Red Herrings: 4 January 1978: 8 episodes adapted by Chris Miller, directed by Simon Brett. [12] 7: Murder Must Advertise: 1 January 1979: 6 episodes adapted by Alistair Beaton, directed by Martin Fisher. [13] 8: The Nine Tailors: 20 October ...
The adaptations star Ian Carmichael as aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, the second son of the Duke of Denver.Not wanting for money, charm or intelligence, Wimsey takes up detective work as an amateur pursuit, using his connections and social status to assist the police in their investigations.
Harriet Vane was born in 1903, [1] the only daughter of a country doctor. She was an undergraduate at Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College, [2] the location of which is given as the Balliol College Sports Grounds, now partly occupied by a residential annexe, on Holywell Street) and took a First in English.
Gary Bond starred as Lord Peter Wimsey and John Cater as Bunter in two single-episode BBC Radio 4 adaptations: The Nine Tailors on 25 December 1986 and Whose Body on 26 December 1987. [17] Simon Russell Beale played Wimsey in an adaptation of Strong Poison dramatised by Michael Bakewell in 1999. [18]
Strong Poison The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers , her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey . Much of the novel is set in the Bellona Club, a fictional London club for war veterans ( Bellona being a Roman goddess of war).