Strong Poison
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| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
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| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Lord Peter Wimsey |
| Genre(s) | Mystery Novel |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
| Released | 1931 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club |
| Followed by | Five Red Herrings |
Strong Poison is a 1931 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fifth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
It is in Strong Poison that Lord Peter first meets Harriet Vane, an author of detective fiction. The immediate problem is that she is on trial for her life, charged with murdering her former lover — if Lord Peter does not prove she is innocent, he will lose her before he even persuades her to accept his proposal of marriage. But all the clues point to Harriet as the one who gave Philip Boyes the arsenic that killed him.
The title is derived from a phrase in some variants of the ballad Lord Randall, where the title character was poisoned by his lover.
[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
Strong Poison was adapted for television in 1987 as part of a series starring Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter and Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane.
