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Strong Poison

Autor Dorothy L. Sayers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2020
The classic mystery that first featured Harriet Vane, companion sleuth to the dashing, perennially popular private investigator, Lord Peter Wimsey, from the mystery writer widely considered the greatest mystery novelist of the Golden Age--Dorothy L. Sayers.
Featuring an introduction by Elizabeth George, herself a crime fiction master, Strong Poison introduces Harriet Vane, a mystery writer who is accused of poisoning her fiancé and must now join forces with Lord Peter to escape a murder conviction and the hangman’s noose.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062196200
ISBN-10: 0062196200
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Harper Paperbacks

Recenzii

“A model detective story. . . . fascinating.” — New York Times
“Here is unquestionably a shining star in the mystery story firmament and the best of all the Lord peter Wimsey stories—until the next comes along.” — Saturday Review of Literature
“The end of this story is as ingenious as any solution could be.” — Times Literary Supplement (London)

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The sixth book in the classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, with a new introduction by actor Edward Petherbridge who played Wimsey in the classic 1980s BBC TV series.


Notă biografică

Dorothy L Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate in modern languages. As well as her popular Lord Peter Wimsey series, she wrote several religious plays, but considered her translations of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She died in 1957.

www.sayers.org.uk