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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.
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 ...
Wimsey likes her, respects her, and enjoys her company—but that is not enough. In Strong Poison, she is the first person other than Wimsey himself to realise that he has fallen in love with Harriet. Reviewer Barbara Stanton noted that "Dorothy Sayers had created Peter Wimsey as a womanizer - though a rather gentlemanly and sensitive one.
Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by Jill Paton Walsh. Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover (Strong Poison). The detective falls in love with her and proposes ...
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; [n 2] 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French.
The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring: 1999: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life: 2000: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time: 2002: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: A supplement ...
Miss Katharine Alexandra Climpson (Alexandra Katharine Climpson in Unnatural Death; also called "Kitty") is a minor character in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. She appears in two novels: Unnatural Death (1927) and Strong Poison (1930), and is mentioned in Gaudy Night (1935) and Busman's Honeymoon (1937).
Mervyn Bunter is a fictional character in Dorothy L. Sayers's novels and short stories. He serves as Lord Peter Wimsey 's valet , having been Wimsey's batman during the First World War . [ 1 ] Bunter was partially based on the fictional valet Jeeves , created by P. G. Wodehouse .