Strong Poison | 
pickI admit, the mystery in this one was a little tough for me to follow at times. This isn't a bad thing, though, as it's due to the intricacy with which Sayers writes her plots. Plus, the mystery was less important to me in this one than the relationships between the characters, especially since I read a later book in the series and know where some of them are headed. And I just love Miss Climpson!
Photo of a delicious (mild) poison.
Apt photo to go with the tagged book (although I guess jellyfish would be more "strong venom" than "strong poison"). Still sneaking in a few minutes of reading each evening once the adventures are done for the day.
Back with another vacation pic from the second stop on our road trip: a soaring turkey vulture. We were hoping to see a California condor, but no such luck this time. We did get to hike along cliffs and through a cave, though, and that rocked. And I even made some progress on the tagged book!
Look at this #FolioSociety set that I found at a secondhand bookshop! Isn‘t it pretty?
I guess I should really get back to reading the series. 😆
pickI love a good Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, and this one is glorious. The dialogue is witty and hilarious, and Lord Peter has a delightful combination of flippancy and earnestness that‘s incredibly endearing. I also fell in love with Miss Climpson & her full retinue of “spinsters” who do most of the actual investigating this time around. This series just improves with each book. Looking forward to the next! #SeriesLove2023
“For the last five years or so,” said Wimsey, “you have been looking like a demented sheep at my sister, and starting like a rabbit whenever her name is mentioned. What do you mean by it? It is not ornamental. It is not exhilarating. You unnerve the poor girl.”
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pickMy first Peter Whimsey mystery. I quite enjoyed it! #192025 @Librarybelle
Day 17 of #scarathlondailyprompts is poison.
I don‘t remember how I heard about this series written in the 1920s and 30s, (maybe from a Modern Mrs. Darcy blog) but I finally did in 2017. I read all of the books that have Peter‘s love interest, Harriet Vane. She is amazing, the two are quite a pair, and I LOVE these minimalist covers. #TeamSlaughter #scarathlon
pickRe-read this yesterday to change pace from thrillers. Civilized and articulate in love and detection🌟❣️perfect with tea and shortbread biscuits.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ An all-time favorite (and the audiobook was perfect for a crochet project). Here we have the remarkable character of Harriet Vane, and of course the inimitable Lord Peter. But every character, even the minor ones, is so vivid. I felt like I stepped right into Lord Peter‘s world. As a side note, I‘ve never read a book about a gentleman detective where the ladies did so much of the sleuthing. Miss Climpson is a boss!
pickI read this in preparation for reading gaudy night as it is the first of the Harriet Vane series. The plot is obvious and you hear little from Harriet herself other than she is an oddball. But what you get is an insight into womens experiences in post ww1 England. You can tell this is a frustrated clever woman writing about the limits on womens lives with bitter insight. I loved The Cattery. It was just a shame it was set up and funded by a man
The male detective,particularly when dressed as a workman, an errand-boy, or a telegraph-messenger, is favourably placed for ‘shadowing‘. He can loaf without attracting attention. The female detective must not loaf On the other hand she can stare into shop windows for ever.
so-soAnother fun mystery for Lord Peter Wimsey, but not my favourite. I was quite eager to read this as I've not previously read any of the books featuring Harriet Vane. However, I was a little disappointed that I didn't really get any sense of her character from this book, and that made it all the more unbelievable that Wimsey was so smitten, especially as he declared his undying love despite never having spoken to her before! ⭐⭐⭐
pickWimsey is really growing on me, even with his iffy insta-love. I'll have to read the next books with Harriet Vane. But Miss Climpson stole the show!
pickAnother engaging adventure of Wimsey. Vane's perspective is unfortunately not made central as it would be in later works, but the cast on hand are quite winning all the same.
"If anyone ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle." Or that's pretty close to the right quote.
Just wanted to share that me and my wife piffle at each other endlessly, and call it that due to this book, because Harriet is quite right about the pleasures of piffle.
One piece of our piffle is that daffodils are only yellow because rabbits secretly paint them.
I wish you all good piffle with the ones you love.
#BookMail Pt5 I‘m slowly collecting the whole Lord Peter Whimsy collection by Dorothy.L.Sayers in these gorgeous paperback editions. Each volume is a different colour with an Art Deco border & an drawing that pertains to the story. I love them! The colour are very pastel or ice cream-like colours, The spines in a row will look amazing on my shelf. Plus, the stories are very much like Dame Agatha except Sayers Detective is a more real character.
pickAn interesting introduction to Harriet Vane in this installment of the Lord Peter Wimsey series. You really only see her from the moment of Peter‘s infatuation and don‘t get to know much about the woman herself. Having ready Gaudy Night and Busman‘s Holiday, I have heard her inner voice, but I‘m looking forward to future books to see her relationship with Peter developed.
Miss Climpson‘s role bumped this from 3.5 to 4 stars 🙂
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This book is apparently inspired by Sayers‘ relationship with John Cournos, a fellow-writer who believed in ‘free love‘ and wanted her to ignore social expectations and live with him without marriage. Their relationship did not work out.
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An enjoyable instalment of whodunnit with some memorable characters, witty antics of Lord Peter and a bit of satire. Fun, quick read!
I have completely missed the list of prompts for #SeptemberDanes but how can I not jump in to show you that there is more than one queen of murder by #poison 😁 In addition to the tagged book, Dorothy L. Sayers has Lord Peter deal with “The Unpleasantness at the Belladonna Club”, and Harriet Vane is up against a “poison pen” in my most beloved “Gaudy Night”. ☠️ ❤️
pickI will never not adore these books, I think. I've probably told the story about how the audiobooks saved me -- in brief, I had my gallbladder out, but waking up from anaesthetic I had a panic attack and even with an oxygen mask, they couldn't get me oxygenated. Then my mum forced her way in with my teddy and put on one of the Ian Carmichael audiobooks. Slowly, I started to breathe. She left her ipad playing as she was kicked out of the ward.
A favourite, of course, and since I wasn't settling to anything else, I decided to spend some time with Lord Peter. Kinda wish my wife was awake so I could quote the bits that didn't make it into the BBC radioplays -- though by and large they're very faithful.
Bunny update! Here's Breakfast flopping on his favourite bookshelf. He's on another round of meds, but he's eating and binkying and cuddling as normal, so not too worried. #BunniesofLitsy
pickMy third, though out of order, in the series. I‘m going to dive right in to the next book which has Harriet Vane at the center.
I love these covers and I want the whole series like this. All 15 of them. (I think it‘s 15.) 💸 #emojinov
1930s. Golden age of the mysteries. With masters of the genre. Dorothy Sayers, amazing. Agatha Christie, eternal. Ngaio Marsh, fantastic. Georgette Heyer, not where you thought you would find her. Dashiell Hammett, forbearer. Georges Simenon, infatigable. #uncannyOctober. On an interesting final note, Murder at the Vicarage, was first published in October 1930.
#anditsaugust #day1 - #mostanticipated
Nice to be back into the groove of a reading challenge again. July was a bonkers month for #manga , so this month I'll be looking to catch up on some literature.
pickListened to this and really enjoyed the reader, Ian Carmichael, who played Wimsey on the BBC series from years ago. This is the story where Wimsey meets Harriet Vane for the first time, while defending her from a murder charge. Old fashioned in the best way, at least for an Anglophile like me!
Continuing with my course work for my Oxford week in the summer, it's time to dive into this as I start the Sayers series. The class is called Oxford Murder and it's a lit class with all sorts of mystery books set in the hallowed halls of Oxford. I chose it as a fun introduction to the programs offered at Oxford. I'll be living on campus with one of my oldest friends in a shared suite. I can not wait. But first I have to get through the syllabus!
pickA fabulous audiobook production of a fabulous book. I've enjoyed all the Peter Wimsey books up until this one, but the parts that wonderfully drawn side characters played in this one (Ms Climpson, Ms Merchison & Harriet Vane) make this a fav. A superb mystery, with excellent characterization and wit. I really appreciate how large a role women play in the sleuthing too. I can't wait to see what Sayers does with Harriet Vane's character. #Audiobooks
My on-going love affair with Lord Wimsey continues.
pickNothing like an excellent mystery and a warm fire-- especially in the fall! And Dorothy Sayers truly crafts a compelling mystery. I love when a mystery writer provides all the necessary clues and the case is still baffling!
For reasons that baffle me, Amazon and Google Play appear to be having a price war over this very fine, very dead British mystery writer. Currently the ebook is on sale for SIX CENTS. Yes, you heard that right. Six. Cents.
Does Lord Peter Wimsey count as a #classiccharacter for #octbookchallenge ? If he does, then him! I listen to the audiobooks of his mysteries over and over.
Strong Poison is the first Peter and Harriet and it's devilishly clever and very very readable.
Making time for Lord Peter Wimsey.
pickToday's audiobook. For the umpteenth time. Ian Carmichael is *perfection* as Lord Peter. I have all four Peter and Harriet books on audio - this and Busman's Honeymoon unabridged and Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night as radio dramas. And I listen to them in order often (though not always).
pickHarriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, the wise-cracking, mystery-solving, transatlantic Nick and Nora Charles get their start here, when Harriet finds herself on trial for murder. Both protagonists are well drawn characters; the story crackles along. You'll want to read the whole series in a weekend.
pickThis is the third Sayers' detective novel I've read in a row. This one was a bit slower than the previous two but still an entertaining read! I will read more of this series. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
