Strong Poison
Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 6
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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.
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- Mrs. C. Hunt
- 02-01-19
Strong Poison
Yet more great detectin, on an almost impossible case to prove. Brilliant characters and written with hummer.
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- Michelle
- 26-07-15
Did she do it?
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.
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- Hilary
- 28-09-15
Classic crime
Good story, slightly spoilt at times by strange pronunciation of words and very odd phrasing of sentences.
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- Maria Davies
- 21-11-24
Fantastic Story
Loved this from beginning to end. Cleverly written and suspenseful. Brilliantly narrated with comic touches.
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- S.W.
- 18-03-25
A good novel marred by poor narration
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.
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- Matthew Ellner
- 14-02-15
Excellent
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?
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- Nella
- 16-04-20
Wrong narrator
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’.
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- MR G.
- 07-06-20
Excellent story, accurately but not well read.
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.
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- SjC
- 28-12-19
A refreshingly modern feeling clasic
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.
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- Dorset Bob
- 17-03-22
Meh....
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.
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