Folio Archives 142: Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers 2006
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Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers 2006
This is one of Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey amateur detective novels, and in the usual style, there are multiple suspects, an impossible murder using arsenic, and an intriguing solution that is finally elucidated by the Wimsey’s elaborate, careful and detailed sleuthing.
Set in 1920s London, it is an easy light to read book of 235 pages that has you guessing to the end, as all good detective novels should. Unusually, the book starts as the trial of the accused is completed.
The book was originally published as part of a set by the Folio Society in 1998, and reprinted numerous times. My copy is a third printing from 2006 when the book was published separately for the first time.
There are numerous illustrations by Natacha Ledwidge integrated into the text, some of which are full page, others are tailpieces. The introduction is by P. D. James, and in its plain dark green slipcase the book is 23.5x16cm. The endpapers are plain light green. The book is bound with heavy paper on which is printed a bright wrap-around colour picture by Ledwidge.
The FS has published 9 other books (sets of 4 and 5 books as well as individual volumes) by Dorothy Sayers, four of them in a similar format to Strong Poison. Lord Peter Views the Body was produced after the others in 2017 in the pale blue binding.
Dorothy L Sayers book sets by the FS
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
This is one of Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey amateur detective novels, and in the usual style, there are multiple suspects, an impossible murder using arsenic, and an intriguing solution that is finally elucidated by the Wimsey’s elaborate, careful and detailed sleuthing.
Set in 1920s London, it is an easy light to read book of 235 pages that has you guessing to the end, as all good detective novels should. Unusually, the book starts as the trial of the accused is completed.
The book was originally published as part of a set by the Folio Society in 1998, and reprinted numerous times. My copy is a third printing from 2006 when the book was published separately for the first time.
There are numerous illustrations by Natacha Ledwidge integrated into the text, some of which are full page, others are tailpieces. The introduction is by P. D. James, and in its plain dark green slipcase the book is 23.5x16cm. The endpapers are plain light green. The book is bound with heavy paper on which is printed a bright wrap-around colour picture by Ledwidge.
The FS has published 9 other books (sets of 4 and 5 books as well as individual volumes) by Dorothy Sayers, four of them in a similar format to Strong Poison. Lord Peter Views the Body was produced after the others in 2017 in the pale blue binding.
Dorothy L Sayers book sets by the FS
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
